[Tutor] Re: Please critique my guessing game program.

[Matt Smith]

Hi,
Thanks fo the help, I've made some changes to the program (please see
below) and I intend to write a function to test the type of the variable
guess (will have to use raw_input insted of input).

I've got a couple of queries at this stage of developing the program:
1) Would it be preferable to have the main game loop as part of the main
body of the program at this stage?  At the moment it doesn't seam logical
to me to split off the section that I have as a function.

2) Should I use the newline character in my print statements as opposed to
having empty print statements?  I guess this would look neater and take up
less lines of code.

Thanks again for the help,
Matt.

# A guessing game program.
# By Matt Smith

import random

def Random100():
    """function to return a random number between 1 and 100"""
    return random.randint(1,100)

# Game loop.

def Game(guess):
    guesses = 1
    while guess != number:
        if guess > number:
            guess = input("Too high, try again. ")
        else:
            guess = input("Too low, try again. ")
        guesses = guesses + 1
    print "Well done, you got it in",guesses,"goes."

# Main program.
# Introduce the program.

print
print "*****************"
print "* Guessing Game *"
print "*****************"
print

# Play the game.

playagainflag = 1
while playagainflag == 1:
    print
    print "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 100"
    number = Random100()
    guess = input ("What's your first guess? ")
    Game(guess)
    print
    playagain = raw_input("Do you want to play again? (y/n) ")
    if playagain == "y" or playagain == "Y":
        playagainflag = 1
    else:
        playagainflag = 0
print "Goodbye!"
print

# End of program.