On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:43:40 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>Seymore4Head wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:58:51 -0400, Seymore4Head >> <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> wrote: >> >>>number = 7 >>>guess = -1 >>>count = 0 >>> >>>print("Guess the number!") >>>while guess != number: >>> guess = int(input("Is it... ")) >>> count = count + 1 >>> if guess == number: >>> print("Hooray! You guessed it right!") >>> elif guess < number: >>> print("It's bigger...") >>> elif guess > number: >>> print("It's not so big.") >> >> The part to here is supposed to be an example to allow the user to >> guess at a number (7) with an infinite amount of tries. >> >> >> This part was added as an exercise. > > >Ah, now things make sense! Your subject line is misleading! It's not that >the wikibooks example doesn't work, the example works fine. It's that the >code you added to it doesn't do what you expected. You should have said. > I copied it verbatim from the web page's solution. After indenting as you suggested, it does work now though. Thanks > >> A counter is added to give 3 tries to guess the number. >> It is supposed to stop after count gets to 3. It doesn't. It just >> keeps looping back and asking for another guess. > >You don't check the counter until after the loop has finished. It needs to >be inside the loop, not outside: > >while looping: > # See the indent? > # this is inside the loop > ># No indent. ># This is outside the loop. > > >Also, having reached the count of three, you will want to break out of the >loop. The "break" command does that. > >Is this enough of a hint to continue? Please feel free to ask any further >questions you need. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list