As per my assignment how do I break the attempt

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Create a program in Python, called TA_Calculator, that uses a function to calculates the area of a triangle given the base and height measurements. Use the below function to do your calculation:def area_of_triangle(base, height):return 0.5 * base * heightThe program should receive the base and the height from the user. Once the user enter a base greater than the height the program should give the user another attempt to enter a base and a height. The program only give the user three attempts to enter the correct base and height on the third attempt the program should display the below message:"You have exhausted your 3 attempts please try again later"Expected outputlf the user enter a base less than height, the program should display the correct triangle area using the given function

What I have tried:

<pre>print("Enter the base and hight")
attempts = 0

while attempts !=3:
    base_val = float(input("base "))
    height_val = float(input("height "))
    if base_val < height_val:
        def area_of_triangle(base, height):return 0.5 * base * height
        print(area_of_triangle(base_val, height_val))
        break
        attempts += 1
    else:
        print("Try your next attemp")
        #print("You have exhausted your 3 attempts please try again later")

Posted 1-Jul-21 2:02am

bhushan7

Updated 1-Jul-21 2:17am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-01T02:15:00

You only increment the attempts variable if the inputs are valid. You should move it into the else clause:

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while attempts !=3:
    base_val = float(input("base "))
    height_val = float(input("height "))
    if base_val < height_val:
        def area_of_triangle(base, height):return 0.5 * base * height
        print(area_of_triangle(base_val, height_val))
        break
    else:
        attempts += 1
        if attempts == 3:
            print("You have exhausted your 3 attempts please try again later")
        else:
            print("Try your next attemp")

OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-01T02:17:00

The break statement immediately exits the "closest" loop: if you are have two nested loops, then break inside the inner oen exist from that loop only, and continues from the first lane of code after it rather than exiting from both.

So your code after the break:

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print(area_of_triangle(base_val, height_val))
break
attempts += 1

will never, ever get executed. Which doesn't matter too much in this case, because the loop will always exit immediately if the base is less than the height.

What you need to do is move the line:

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attempts += 1

outside the if and add code to check it to the else code.

As per my assignment how do I break the attempt

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