Why will this not do anything?

[Daniel Johnson]

from random import randint

class firstRoom():
    def __init__(self):
        print "Welcome to the start of the game. Good luck finishing it."
        print "There is a keypad on the door. You have to get all 3 digits correct, or the door will never open again."
        return 'break_out'

    def break_out(self):
        
        # Until everythin is working only one number
        combination = "%d" % (randint(1,3))
        guesses = 0
        guess = raw_input("[KEYPAD]>")
        

        while guess != combination and guesses < 10:
            print "INCORRECT, TRY AGAIN"
            guesses += 1
            return 'break_out'

        if guess == combination:
            print "welldone"

I do not get any errors, it just doesn't do anything.

This is my first time working with classes by the way.

[Rabbit]

It shouldn't do anything. You've created a class but you never do anything with it.

[Daniel Johnson]

So how do i get it to work?

[Rabbit]

Instantiate a variable of the class and then use it.

class TestClass:
   def f(self):
      return 'hello world'

x = TestClass()
x.f()

[Daniel Johnson]

Thanks but it still doesn't go to the break_out function?

[Rabbit]

We need to see the code.

[bvdet]

As Rabbit posted, you have to call the method.

>>> x = firstRoom()
Welcome to the start of the game. Good luck finishing it.
There is a keypad on the door. You have to get all 3 digits correct, or the door will never open again.
>>> x.break_out()
welldone
>>>

[Smygis]

I suspect that all the places you have

return 'break_out'

That what you really want is self.break_out( )

from random import randint
 
class firstRoom():
    def __init__(self):
        print "Welcome to the start of the game. Good luck finishing it."
        print "There is a keypad on the door. You have to get all 3 digits correct, or the door will never open again."
        
        self.break_out()

    def break_out(self):

        # Until everythin is working only one number
        combination = "%d" % (randint(1,3))
        guesses = 0
        guess = raw_input("[KEYPAD]>")


        while guess != combination and guesses < 10:
            print "INCORRECT, TRY AGAIN"
            guesses += 1
            print combination, guesses # Debug added by me
            self.break_out()

        if guess == combination:
            print "welldone"


if __name__ == "__main__":
    firstRoom()

And if so you have an other major problem in your code. Every time you guess the combination resets as well as guesses.

edit. I got bored and fixed the program up a bit as well as extending it to make the guessing a bit more fair.

from random import randint
 
class firstRoom():
    
    def __init__(self):
        
        print "Welcome to the start of the game. Good luck finishing it."
        print """There is a keypad on the door. You have to get all 3 digits
                correct, or the door will never open again."""
        
        # Until everythin is working only one number
        self.combination = "".join([str(randint(0,9)) for x in xrange(3)])
        self.guesses = 0
        
    def break_out(self):
        
        guess = raw_input("[KEYPAD]>")
        
        if guess != self.combination and self.guesses < 10:
            
            print "INCORRECT, TRY AGAIN"
            self.guesses += 1
            self.eval_guess(guess)
            self.break_out()
            
        elif guess == self.combination:
            print "welldone"
            
        else:
            print "FAIL!"
            
    def eval_guess(self, guess):
        
        # print self.guesses, self.combination # Debug

        if len(guess) == 3 and guess.isdigit():
            lg = []
            for x, y in zip(guess, self.combination):
                if int(x) < int(y):
                    lg.append("<")

                elif int(x) > int(y):
                    lg.append(">")

                else:
                    lg.append("=")

            print "".join(lg)

    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    x = firstRoom()
    x.break_out()