[Tutor] Guess my number?

[Rob Andrews]

Let's take a look....

I pasted your code into a new window and gave it a go. You used tabs
for indentation (or they got in there somewhere in the
email/copy/paste process), which confused my tiny mind, so I replaced
'em with spaces.

I noticed a few things. Here's my code:
#####################################
import random
import sys

number = random.randrange(100) + 1
guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
tries = 1

while (guess != number):
    if (tries > 10):
        print "too many guesses"
        sys.exit()

    if (guess > number):
        print "Lower...\n"
    elif (guess < number):
        print "Higher...\n"
    # elif (tries > 10):
       # print "You're stupid!"
    else:
        print "Error!"

    guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
    tries += 1
#####################################

I noticed you mis-spelled "tries" in one place, so I changed the spelling.

I also moved the test for the number of tries to a separate "if"
statement running before the "if" you had already included, so if the
user guesses too many times, it won't continue to run through the
guess-checking routine.

And I used sys.exit() to get out cleanly when the user exceeds the guess limit.

-Rob

On 8/7/05, . , <administrata at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want the program to say "You're stupid!" When a player fails to guess in
> 10 tries.
> But, it's not working..
> 
> 
> import random
> 
> number = random.randrange(100) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
> tries = 1
> 
> while (guess != number):
>     if (guess > number):
>         print "Lower...\n"
>     elif (guess < number):
>         print "Higher...\n"
>     elif (tires > 10):
>         print "You're stupid!"
>     else:
>         print "Error!"
> 
>     guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
>     tries += 1
> 
> print "\nYou guess it! The number was", number
> print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n"
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")