[Tutor] Help with Guess the number script

[Scott Dunning]

On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:57 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> OK so far, you don't need all the print statements
> but that's just a style issue. (You could just
> insert '\n' characters instead.)
You’re right, I’m actually not sure why I did it that way.

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>>     if guess < secret - 10 or guess > secret - 10:
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> This is the right idea for cutting the line count but you
> have the comparison values wrong. Look back to earlier
> emails, you are repeating the same error as before.
> Manually think through what happens in the line above
> if guess == secret.
Oh, do you mean it should be <= and >=??  I’m not sure why that would work, because if guess==secret I have another statement in my code that takes care of that.  I didn’t want to add my whole code because it’s too long but that is in there.
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> And then once you get that fixed you can rewrite using
> the chained comparison trick to tidy it up.

> ie
> if not (lower limit < guess > upper limit):
I see what you’re saying about the chained comparison.  What I’m having problems with is condensing it to half the lines of code so I don’t have to have the same conditionals under both ‘too low’ and ‘to high’.   If that makes sense.  
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