[Tutor] Help with looping...

Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:18:38 -0500

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Greetings...
I have been working on a simple number guessing game... and I
would like to add the ability to keep playing games repeatedly. I
suspect that this is done with the 'continue' command... but I am
either wrong in that assumption... or can't get the syntax... I'm
including my code as it stands... any help would be gratefully
appreciated...
Many Thanks
Rick Goldman

and here's the script:

> lower = 1
> upper = 200
> while 1:
>         print "lower", lower, "upper", upper
>         if lower > upper:
>                 print "cheetas never prosper"
>                 break
>         guess = (lower + upper) /2
>         print "Is it", guess, "?"
>         outcome = raw_input("Is the number higher, lower, or equal to my guess?")
>         if outcome == "lower":
>                 upper = guess -1
>         elif outcome == "higher":
>                 lower = guess + 1
>         elif outcome == "equal":
>                 answer = raw_input("That was fun. Another?" )# I assume that I need something here... but what?
>                 if answer == "no":
>                         print "Thank you"
>                         break
>         else:
>                 print "lower, higher or yes, you Hoser"
>
>

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Greetings...
<br>I have been working on a simple number guessing game... and I would
like to add the ability to keep playing games repeatedly. I suspect that
this is done with the 'continue' command... but I am either wrong in that
assumption... or can't get the syntax... I'm including my code as it stands...
any help would be gratefully appreciated...
<br>Many Thanks
<br>Rick Goldman
<p>and here's the script:
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<pre>lower = 1
upper = 200
while 1:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "lower", lower, "upper", upper
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if lower > upper:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "cheetas never prosper"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; break
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; guess = (lower + upper) /2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "Is it", guess, "?"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; outcome = raw_input("Is the number higher, lower, or equal to my guess?")
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if outcome == "lower":
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; upper = guess -1
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elif outcome == "higher":
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lower = guess + 1
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elif outcome == "equal":
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; answer = raw_input("That was fun. Another?" )# I assume that I need something here... but what?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if answer == "no":
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "Thank you"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; break&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print "lower, higher or yes, you Hoser"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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