Help with guessing game :D

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Tue Oct 29 13:22:04 EDT 2013


On 2013-10-29, Alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> set the number to be guessed
> get the user input
> step through each digit in the input
> compare to the co-responding digit in the number to be guessed
> generate the required output
>
> actually let me just expand on my earlier teaser code
>
> does this switch on any light-bulbs for you
>
> data='7865'
> guess=input('guess')
> for key,digit in enumerate(data):
> 	print digit,guess[key]

I just want to add that this programming exercise, while pretty
common, stinks.

A new programmer shouldn't be embroiled in the morass of
interactive programming.

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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