First python program, syntax error in while loop

[John Gordon]

In <24c5856e-a30a-41bd-aa4a-0e594734e1f8 at googlegroups.com> ryankoch38 at gmail.com writes:

> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")

> import random

> tries = 0
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")

> while (guess != number):
> if (guess > number):
>     number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is lower than that! \n Try again:")
>    tries += 1
> else if (guess < number):
>     number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is higher than that! \n Try again:")
>     tries += 1
> print "Congratulations, you guessed my number! \n And it only took you" tries "tries!"

> raw_input("\n\n Press any key to exit..")

> ## what is wrong with this script? I'm just trying to understand while loops and ## this is not a real project :P

You're missing a second closing parentheses on the line where the user
inputs their guess.

Also, you need to indent the 'if' statement underneath the while loop.

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