Newbie help

[bruno modulix]

Chad Everett wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Hope you can help me again with another problem.  I am trying to learn 
> Python on my own and need some help with the following.
> 
> I am writing a program that lets has the pc pick a number and the user 
> has five guess to get the number.
> 1. BUG:  If the number is say 35 and I guess 41 the program tells me 
> that I guessed the correct number and tells me I guessed 31.
> 
> 2.When I do get the correct number I can not get the program to stop 
> asking me for the number.
> 
> 
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Chad
> 
> # Five Tries to Guess My Number
> #
> # The computer picks a random number between 1 and 100
> # The player gets Five tries to guess it and the computer lets
> # the player know if the guess is too high, too low
> # or right on the money
> #
> # Chad Everett 2/10/2005
> 
> import random
> 
> print "\tWelcome to 'Guess My Number'!"
> print "\nI'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100."
> print "You Only Have Five Guesses.\n"
> 
> # set the initial values
> number = random.randrange(100) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Go Ahead and Take a guess: "))
> tries = 1
> 
> 
> # guessing loop
> 
> 
> while guess != number:

You actually need a second condition : tries >= 5

> 
>     if (guess > number):
>         print "Guess Lower..."
>     else:
>         print "Guess Higher..."

The fact that guess is not strictly greater than number doesn't mean 
it's strictly lower... You should handle 3 cases :
1/ guess > number
2/ guess < number
3/ guess == number

Here the 2/ and /3 are handled by the same branch...

>     guess = int(raw_input("Take Another guess: "))
>     tries += 1

>     print "You guessed it!  The number was", number
>     print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n"

This will be executed whatever ! This code should be *outside* the loop. 
(remember that in Python, whitespace is significative...)

(snip)

HTH
-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for 
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"