[Tutor] breaking the 'while' loop

[Andre Engels]

2007/3/20, Alexander Kapshuk <akap at isd.dp.ua>:
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>  Dear All,
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> I have been learning computer programming with Python only for a short
> while. I have a question to do with breaking the *while loop*.
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> I have attached the source code of a program called 'Guess my number' with
> the *while loop* running until the right number is guessed.
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> I want to limit the number of tries to 5. To do that, I have tried the *if
> structure* along with the *break statement* immediately below the
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> 'tries += 1' line:
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> if tries > 5:
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>           break
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>  print "Wrong guess!"
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> Which still did not result in the *while loop* breaking after attempt No
> 5.
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> I would appreciate being explained what I am doing wrong.
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It would have helped if you had given the code *with* the extra lines in it.
My first guess is that you did a wrong indentation, but without the actual
code I cannot be sure.

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Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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