This is an exercise from the Non-programmers tutorial for Python by Josh Cogliati.
The exercise is:
Write a program that has a user guess your name, but they only get 3 chances to do so until the program quits.
Here is my script:
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count = 0 name = raw_input("Guess my name. ")
while name != 'Ben' and count < 3: count = count + 1
if name != 'Ben' and count < 3: name = raw_input('Guess again. ') elif name == 'Ben' and count < 3: print "You're right!" else: print 'No more tries.'
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Everything works except the line: print "You're right!"
Could someone tell me what is wrong
The code within the while loop (i.e., everything indented) is executed only if the while condition is true, i.e., name != Ben and count < 3
So name == 'Ben': will always be false and "You're right!" will never get printed
and give me a better alternative to
what I came up with.Just a hint: you may find a cleaner solution if you separate the tests for name from the test for count.
Thank you
Ben
HTH
Michael
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