Computer’s Move

What have we got?

We have set up the user’s input. This is our inventory of already created functions:

# Function to display game instructions
def display_instructions():
    print('Welcome to Rock Paper Scissors.\n')
    print('The rules are simple:')
    print('1. Rock beats scissors')
    print('2. Scissors beat paper')
    print('3. Paper beats rock')

# Function to ask for the number of rounds
def get_rounds():
    rounds = input('\nHow many rounds would you like to play? \nRounds: ')
    rounds = int(rounds)
    return rounds

# Function to get the player’s choice
def get_player_choice():
    player_choice = input('\nPlease enter rock, paper, or scissors. \nChoice: ')
    return player_choice

In this task, we will create a function to get a move from the computer.

What’s next?

We’ll use the choice function in Python’s random library to choose one of the three options and return that option as the computer’s choice.

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