Help with guessing game :D

[Robert Gonda]

On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 14:25:10 UTC, Alister  wrote:
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> >> >> if you need to be checking individual digits you are probably best
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> >> >> "No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid."
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> >> > I see, so how should i do it? I wouldn't mind having no text in it I
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> >> > just need the program to generate the number and the user to try to
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> >> > guess what the number is, so for example if a python would generate
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> >> > 770 and the user would guess 870 it would say NYN
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> >> Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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> > Now you have confused me completely, sorry im just new to python and
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> you will probably learn more through trial & error than you will from 
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> to shine some more light on my advise try the following
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> code="7689"
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> for digit in code:
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> 	print(digit)
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> does this give you any Ideas on how to proceed?
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> If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?

Unfortunately I'm not that sort of person, the way my brain learns is by experimenting, but first I need to know exactly what to write. Then I will play around with it and customize it to my needs, sorry to be such a bother guys :/ and thanks again for your help it's appreciated a lot :)