On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:37:22 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: > I want to give the computer 100 tries to guess a random number between 1 > and 100 picked by the computer. > > For the moment I am always using 37 as the random pick. I want to > change the pick to pick=random.randrange(1,100). The program works as > expected until the computer gets a correct guess. I don't know what I > should be doing to restart the program when pick=guess. > > It is supposed to let the computer pick a number between 1 and 100 and > then let the computer guess the answer. If the computer picks a low > number the next guess is supposed to be limited to higher numbers than > the guess. If the computer picks a high number, the next guess is > supposed to be limited to lower numbers than the first guess. > > The program fails when guess=pick > > import random count = 1 #Start the counter at 1 low=1 # > the low range of 1 to 10 high=100 #The high range of 1 to 100 pick > = 37 # Will change to pick=random.randrange(1,100) > guess = 0 #Guess is the computer's guess at pick print ("Time to > play a guessing game.") > print ("") > > > while count < 100: > guess = random.randrange(low,high) > print (pick, guess) > if guess == pick: > print ("correct") > > #"What I need is something here that says start over" > > elif guess < pick: > low=guess+1 print ("Too low") > elif guess > pick: > high=guess-1 print ("Too high") > count = count +1 > > (I can see where adding a 25 then 10 increment later would speed up the > guessing)
Write the problem out in basic english terms, then translate these to the program. The english might look like this (laid out in a pythonic manner): while I want to play a game: choose a number guess the answer tries = 1 while guess != choice: guess another answer tries = tries + 1 print "it took " + tries + " attempts to guess " + choice This simplification doesn't take the calculation of ranges into account, but that's part of "guess the/another answer". -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list