[Tutor] Help with function scoping

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 23 08:38:55 EDT 2017


On 23/03/17 10:15, Richard Mcewan wrote:

> #loop to check guess and report
> while userGuess != computerGuess:
> 	if userGuess < computerGuess:
> 		print('Too low')
> 		userGuess = getUser()
> 	elif userGuess > computerGuess:
> 		print('Too high')
> 		userGuess = getUser()

One tiny tweak would be to remove the userGuess = getUser()
lines from the if/elif structure and just have a single
assignment at the end of the loop. It just saves
duplication and so means less work if you ever have
to change that line.


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