First python program, syntax error in while loop

[John Gordon]

In <02b65e11-89c6-4639-9d93-27e1f90eed66 at googlegroups.com> ryankoch38 at gmail.com writes:

> Okay, thank you very much for the timely replies, heres what i have now:

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

> import random

> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> tries = 0
> 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:
>         number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is higher than that! \n Try again:"))
>         tries += 1
>         
>         print "good job, you won!"
>         


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


> ## it seems to stick with "higher" or "lower" after my first guess, whichever it 
> ## is

When the user re-enters their guess in the while loop, you're assigning
the input to "number" instead of "guess".

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