How do I get this choose your own adventure story in python to start over if the user enters that they want to play again?

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Here is my code so far, which works:

print('Welcome to choose your own adenture.')
print('You enter a room with two doors.  Do you want to enter the red door or the white door?')
door = input()

while True:

  if door == 'white':
    print("there was a dragon behind the door.  It ate you and you died.")
    break
  elif door == 'red':
    run_or_dead = input("there is a bear behind the door.  Do you want to wave your arms and shout, or play dead?")
    while True:
      if run_or_dead == 'wave':
        print("Nice try, but the bear did't buy it.  It ate you and you died.")
        break
      elif run_or_dead == 'play dead':
        print("Nice try, but the bear did't buy it.  It ate you and you died.")
        break
      else:
        run_or_dead = input('Not a valid answer.  Do you want to wave or play dead?')
    break

  else:
    door = input('that is not a valid choice.  Do you want to enter the red door or the white door?')

I can't figure out how to get the program to ask the user if they want to repeat the whole process and do so if they enter 'yes'

Add another while loop around all of the code... then perhaps refactor the code into functions / methods in a class... — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Jul 13 '17 at 20:32
procedural style is quite hard to use in this purpose, try to create a function you can trigger to restart the process — PRMoureu, Jul 13 '17 at 20:33
Possible duplicate of [Asking the user for input until they give a valid response](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23294658/asking-the-user-for-input-until-they-give-a-valid-response) — Peter Wood, Jul 13 '17 at 20:34

Mohd · Answer 1 · 2017-07-13T20:41:57.717

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One simple way is to surround your while True with another loop, for example:

play_more = True
while play_more:
    # your while True loop goes here
    uinput = input('Type yes if you wanna play more')
    play_more = uinput.lower() == 'yes'

edited Jul 13 '17 at 20:41

answered Jul 13 '17 at 20:34

Mohd

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@cricket_007 +1 – Mohd Jul 13 '17 at 20:37
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Best answer since OP is a beginner. – Rushil Srivastava Jul 13 '17 at 20:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '17 at 20:36

You could put the game into a function, and call it as long as the user enters a predefined value:

def game():
    print('Welcome to choose your own adenture.')
    print('You enter a room with two doors.  Do you want to enter the red door or the white door?')
    door = input()

    if door == 'white':
        print("there was a dragon behind the door.  It ate you and you died.")
        return 0
    elif door == 'red':
        run_or_dead = input(
            "there is a bear behind the door.  Do you want to wave your arms and shout, or play dead?")
        while True:
            if run_or_dead == 'wave':
                print("Nice try, but the bear did't buy it.  It ate you and you died.")
                return 0
            elif run_or_dead == 'play dead':
                print("Nice try, but the bear did't buy it.  It ate you and you died.")
                return 0
            else:
                run_or_dead = input('Not a valid answer.  Do you want to wave or play dead?')

    else:
        door = input('that is not a valid choice.  Do you want to enter the red door or the white door?')
        return 0

while input('Do you want to play a game? [y/n]') == 'y':
    game()

Since it's a function, you can't use break anymore to stop the game, but just a return will do the same.

There seems to be a problem with this when you run it. It works fine for most answers, but when you put a non-valid answer for the door question, it loops back to the beginning after you put a second answer in. Try putting a non-valid answer in for the door question so you can see what I mean. — Baxter, Jul 13 '17 at 20:55

How do I get this choose your own adventure story in python to start over if the user enters that they want to play again?

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