HELP with Rock, Paper, Scissor Game

SWT_THANG

[color=Blue]This is the template that we are suppose to use while doing the program, I am a beginner to this programming language and really have no clue what I am doing[/color]


import random
#table of winning plays
win_play_for = {

bubbatremell

Hello, swt_thang.
Here are a couple suggestions for you.

You don't need to keep track of next b/c you can get to the end of the list with
hist[-1] or hist[len(hist)-1]

You can update hist with either
hist += ['x'] #'x' has to be in a list here
or
hist.append('x')

You can guess the player's next move using something like
move = hist[random.randint(1, len(hist)-1)]#selects a random element out of hist
move = win_move_for[move] #converts the player's move into what would beat it
#the above 2 lines could be smushed into one line, but I ran out of room

You can calculate who wins w/ something like:
if win_move_for(user_move) == move:
#computer wins
elif win_move_for(move) == user_move:
#user wins
else:
#tie, assuming valid input

Hope that helps.