In <af59d0cb-5ca3-42ab-83c3-2be84da80...@googlegroups.com> ryankoc...@gmail.com writes:
> I've got it working! I'm really enjoying python :) But now i'd like to make > it break out of the while loop when the user guesses more than 5 numbers and > fails The "Congratulations" message is inside the while loop; that's why it always prints. To break after five guesses, you could change the while loop to this: while (guess != number) and (tries < 5): And then after the while loop, put this if statement: if (tries < 5): print "\nCongratulations! You guessed my number in", tries, "tries" else: print "Sorry, you lost!" -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list