CMPT 165 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Passwd

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Computing Science
• Course: CMPT 165
• Professor: Stephen Lower

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In modern programming languages, there are so many functions for common tasks provided, that it doesn"t make sense to have all of them available all the time: many of the provided functions are separated into libraries. Since the function is in the cgi module, we used it by calling cgi. fieldstorage(: to call a function in a module, we first import the module. These can be used to introduce an element of chance into a game: it contains a function named random that returns a random number between 0 and 1 (possibly including 0, but never 1). For example: import random print random. random(: see online reference for more python modules. 9. 2 making decisions: conditional code code that only runs under certain circumstances, example: we might want to ask the user for a password, and display certain information only if the password they enter is correct. != not equal to: so, each of these expressions evaluates to a boolean value.