Getting an Integer Input in a Range

Question

I\'m trying to take a raw input and detect whether it is in a range.
Here\'s my code.

def gold_room():
    print \"This room is full of gold. How much          


        

Answer 1

The result of raw_input() will be a string, so first you need to check to see if next is all digits. There are a few ways to do this, the easiest is to use the str.isdigit() function:

next = raw_input("> ")
if next.isdigit():
    how_much = int(next)
else:
    dead("Man, learn how to type a number.")

Note that you do not need to check to see if the value for next is in the range from 0 to 50, since your next if statement already checks to see if the value is less than 50 and negative numbers will be excluded by next.isdigit().