Hi there,

Magurp244 has been faster than me ) He answered while I tried to understand python syntax a bit... His code is much more advanced and object oriented, but for a quick revision of your own code, take a look to the following:

from random import randrange
def generateNumbers():
    result = [randrange(1, 7), randrange(1, 7)]
    return result

goal = 25;
score1 = 0;
score2 = 0
turn = 0;
while True == True:
    dice = generateNumbers()
    print ("Press enter to roll...");
    roll = input();
    while roll == "":
        print ("You rolled:");
        for i in dice:
            print (i);
        turn += 1;
        break;
    if (turn % 2 == 0):
        score2 = score2 + dice[0] + dice[1]
    else:
        score1 = score1 + dice[0] + dice[1];
    print("player 1's score is: %d \nPlayers 2 score is: %d" %(score1, score2));
    if (score1 >= goal):
        print ("Congratulations! you won");
        break;
    if (score2 >= goal):
        print("Sorry, you loose!");
        break;

It's my first attempt to code in python, using python 3.4, so don't expect much... Oh, and really I don't understand some of those breaks... but it runs

Talking about global variables, I cannot figure out why someone prevent you from using global variables. In fact, some variables you used (score, turn...) are global variables. It's specially hard to avoid their use working under a non object oriented paradigm as you did in your example, you will need a place to store and share information sooner or later.

Thanks guys this helped a lot. I have not gotten to using classses yet, but I do see how that would work. I forgot about the return statement to return a value and then use it else where in the program.

I was not intending to create a variable called True, I just wanted a simple generic way of creating a endless loop that I could terminate with conditionals. I thought that you could define the Boolean value True and set it equal to the Boolean value of True to get the endless loop. I don't think I actually created a variable there, I believe both values of True are Boolean values.

I understand. Thank you. I had another question though, I tried to do what Alan recommended by creating the function and returning the value, but I can't seem to get it to work. The error I am getting is that "dice" (my list of die in the function) is undefined.
Can someone help me again.

Here is my code.

from random import randrange

score1 = 0;
score2 = 0
turn = 0;

def DiceList():
    dice = [randrange(1, 7), randrange(1, 7)];
    return dice;

while turn >= 0:
    DiceList();
    print ("Press enter to roll...");
    roll = input();
    while roll == "":
        print ("You rolled:");
        for i in dice:
            print (i);
        turn += 1;
        break;
    if (turn % 2 == 0):
        score2 = score2 + dice[0] + dice[1]
    else:
        score1 = score1 + dice[0] + dice[1];
    print ("player 1's score is: %d \nPlayers 2 score is: %d" %(score1, score2));
    if (score1 >= 100 or score2 >= 100):
        print ("Congratulations! you won");
        break;

Thank you so much. I got it working. This has helped me get a better handle on functions.

Wow, thanks Frastlin I think this is exactly what I wanted. This is a little confusing, but I have learned all of these concepts, so I am going to study your code to try and figure out exactly what your doing.

Randint return's a single number between x and y. Randrange works very similarly, but you can also configure it to skip sets of numbers. For example, if you write:

random.randrange(0,10,2)

It will return a random number by two step intervals, such as 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. If you write:

random.randrange(0,100,10)

It will return a random number at ten step intervals, such as 0, 10, 20, 30, etc.

Functions in python use indentation, so once you stop indenting python knows that everything else is not in the function.

example:

function example():
    print ("This line is indented four spaces");
    print ("All lines in the function must be indented the equal amount of space");
print ("this is not apart of the function because it is not indented and against the margin.");

I am not sure if I understand what you mean by "more then one statements"

You can stack indentations though. Say you have a function and an if statement inside that function, the code with in an if statement is indented just like a function, but because the function has already indented the if statement you would now have to indent the code for the if statement 8 spaces rather than 4 spaces. That may have been confusing, here is an example.

def example():
    print ("this is a line inside the function that is indented 4 spaces");
    if (5 > 3):
        print ("5 is greater than 3. This is indented 8 spaces because you have to indent the code for the if statement");
print ("this is outside the print statement");

you can nest as many statements as you want inside each other like any other language, but you have to keep track of the spacing.

Yes, you can use any number of spaces as far as I can tell, however using 4 spaces or the tab key seems to be the standard. I have heard in a couple places not to use tabs, but I think it is just preference. I use tabs because it is much easier to work with and Jaws reads tabs very well in ed sharp (the text editor I use). Also, it is not as time consuming having to press the space bar so many times, and you can still stick with the standard since a tab is equal to 4 spaces.

note: I used spaces in my post because it seems to be easier for jaws to identify the indentation since he only reads blank if you are navigating character by character. if you use a screen reader I recommend turning on the setting so that the screen reader will read indents at least just for your preferred tool for editing python code.

Use tabs for you and do a replace and replace \t with      when giving your code to other people.
(\t = tab)

When writing code like what frastlin posted above using so many functions, it seems that you have to work backwards starting near the end of the code and writing upwards. Is this the case, or do most people just learn to plan out the program completely first, and have the ability to think backwards.