Wikibooks example doesn't work
Seymore4Head
Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid
Wed Aug 6 23:48:09 EDT 2014
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:43:40 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>Seymore4Head wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:58:51 -0400, Seymore4Head
>> <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>number = 7
>>>guess = -1
>>>count = 0
>>>
>>>print("Guess the number!")
>>>while guess != number:
>>> guess = int(input("Is it... "))
>>> count = count + 1
>>> if guess == number:
>>> print("Hooray! You guessed it right!")
>>> elif guess < number:
>>> print("It's bigger...")
>>> elif guess > number:
>>> print("It's not so big.")
>>
>> The part to here is supposed to be an example to allow the user to
>> guess at a number (7) with an infinite amount of tries.
>>
>>
>> This part was added as an exercise.
>
>
>Ah, now things make sense! Your subject line is misleading! It's not that
>the wikibooks example doesn't work, the example works fine. It's that the
>code you added to it doesn't do what you expected. You should have said.
>
I copied it verbatim from the web page's solution. After indenting as
you suggested, it does work now though.
Thanks
>
>> A counter is added to give 3 tries to guess the number.
>> It is supposed to stop after count gets to 3. It doesn't. It just
>> keeps looping back and asking for another guess.
>
>You don't check the counter until after the loop has finished. It needs to
>be inside the loop, not outside:
>
>while looping:
> # See the indent?
> # this is inside the loop
>
># No indent.
># This is outside the loop.
>
>
>Also, having reached the count of three, you will want to break out of the
>loop. The "break" command does that.
>
>Is this enough of a hint to continue? Please feel free to ask any further
>questions you need.
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