[Tutor] Stephen Mik-Almost Brand New to Python 3.4.0-"Guess My Number" program is syntactically correct but will not run as expected

C Smith illusiontechniques at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 20:04:41 CEST 2014


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>          The reason this is happening here is you need to import sys.
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         I don't know why you would think importing sys would fix this.

    docs say it accepts from sys.stdin

I now see that it is not necessary to import sys, although I am not sure
why.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:59 PM, C Smith <illusiontechniques at gmail.com>wrote:

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>      The reason this is happening here is you need to import sys.
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>      I don't know why you would think importing sys would fix this.
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> docs say it accepts from sys.stdin
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Philip Dexter <philip.dexter at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, C Smith wrote:
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>>  I should probably clarify that this list is mainly for python2.7,
>>> correct me if I am wrong.
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>> I don't think that is true.
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>>  On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM, C Smith <illusiontechniques at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>>  The reason this is happening here is you need to import sys.
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>> I don't know why you would think importing sys would fix this.
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>>  On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Stephen Mik
>>> <mik.stephen at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
>>>     I must be doing something very wrong. The program is supposed to run
>>> a main loop ,for control of the program. The program DOES print out the
>>> prompts
>>> before the While Loop, but when it comes to a variable
>>> named"smv_guessNumber" the program DOES NOT prompt for the input for
>>> "smv_guessNumber" as it should. It
>>> is a mystery to me as to why the program will not get to the
>>> "smv_guessNumber=int(input("Think out a first guess:")". I am mystified
>>> why it doesn't reach that
>>> point in the program! Can anyone please help? I have attached the Python
>>> Traceback Error Output,which shows that at least part of the program IS
>>> working. I
>>> also have attached part of the code for the Assignment 4 which should
>>> help in the debugging.I need help ASAP,another program is due very soon and
>>> I have not
>>> even worked out the pseudocode for it yet!
>>> CONCERNED,Stephen W. Mik
>>>
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>> Your first while loop is not running. You convert smv_grandCounter to
>> an int but compare it with a string.
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