On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Becky Mcquilling
<ladymcse2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize this is a fairly generic type of question, but being new to
> programming, I'm not sure how best to approach it.
> I'm doing a tutorial and was given a problem, using shelve. It's taking a
> user name and then asking for scores in a game, until you end the loop.
> Whatever score is the high score, should be returned from the function:
> Here is what I have so far:
> import shelve
> def user_scores():
> user_name = input ("What is the user name?").rstrip()
> scores = int(input("What is the users score, enter 0 if done"))
> shelf = shelve.open('scores.py', writeback=True)
> score = [scores]
> user = {user_name:score}
> shelf['user'] = user
> shelf.close()
> while scores > 0:
> scores = int (input("What is the next score"))
> shelf = shelve.open('scores.py', writeback=True)
> score.append(scores)
> shelf['score'] = score
> shelf.sync()
> shelf.close()
> What I'm not sure of is how to compare the values of score, to find and
> print the one that is highest. Any suggestions?
> Becky
>
>
Look up the function called max(). I think that should take care of
what you need.
Hugo
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