can someone with guessing a number

[Dan Upton]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, garywood <woodygar at sky.com> wrote:
> I would just like the program to exit after guessing the amount of numbers
> wrong
>
> # Guess My Number
> import random
> the_number = random.randrange(100) + 1
> tries = 1
> # guessing loop
> while (guess != the_number):
>     if (guess > the_number):
>         print "Lower..."
>     else:
>         print "Higher..."
>
>     guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
>     tries += 1
>     if tries > 10:
>         print 'you failed- give up'
>
> print "You guessed it!  The number was", the_number
> print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n"
>
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
>
> many Thanks
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How about you check tries > 10 in the condition for your while loop,
and then after the loop you use the value of tries to decide which
message to print out?