User Input

What have we got?

We have set up taking the number of rounds from the user and the game’s introduction. 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

In this task, we must request user input to select one of the three options.

What’s next?

We now need to create a function that takes the user’s choice as input. We can follow these steps to complete this task:

• Ask the user for their choice and store it in a variable.
• Return the variable.

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