[Tutor] command error

[Sander Sweers]

On 16 February 2010 21:32, Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu) <shurui91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a program I wrote, I don't know why I cannot exit when I tried 10
> times? Hope somebody can help me. Thank you!
>
> while (guess != the_number):
>     if (guess > the_number):
>         print ("Lower...")
>         print ("You were wrong, try again", tries, "times left.\n")
>     else:
>         print ("Higher...")
>         print ("You were wrong, try again", tries, "times left.\n")
>
>     guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
>     tries -= 1

This will loop untill guess == the_number with no other way out.
Meaning unless the number is guessed it will end up in an infinite
loop. You will have to figure out how to *break* out ot the while loop
when tries == 0.

Greets
Sander