First python program, syntax error in while loop
John Gordon
gordon at panix.com
Fri May 3 14:21:50 EDT 2013
In <02b65e11-89c6-4639-9d93-27e1f90eed66 at googlegroups.com> ryankoch38 at gmail.com writes:
> Okay, thank you very much for the timely replies, heres what i have now:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
> import random
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> tries = 0
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :"))
> while (guess != number):
> if (guess > number):
> number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is lower than that! \n Try again:"))
> tries += 1
> else:
> number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is higher than that! \n Try again:"))
> tries += 1
>
> print "good job, you won!"
>
> raw_input("\n\n Press any key to exit..")
> ## it seems to stick with "higher" or "lower" after my first guess, whichever it
> ## is
When the user re-enters their guess in the while loop, you're assigning
the input to "number" instead of "guess".
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