Hi William, Just a word of warning, you should get used to using 'raw_input()' rather than 'input()' in your progams.
Why? Because input() attempts to run whatever you type in as a Python program. If you want to know why that's a problem, try running your progam. When it asks you to "Enter the number: " type in this: open('test.txt', 'w') Your program will crash. But look in the directory where you ran it, and you'll see a blank 'test.txt' document! Obviously, it's just as easy to delete files, and cause other malicious damage. Obviously, this isn't much of a problem if you're just writing a small game as a learning excercise. But it's a good habit to practice secure coding whenever possible. raw_input saves anything typed in as a string. Which is good, because you don't want people to be able to execute arbitrary code using your program. But it's bad, because you can't do mathematics with a string. So you need to use 'type casting', which you might not know about yet, to turn the string into a number. Try this instead: number = int(raw_input("Enter the number: ")) Your program will still look the same, but it'll be a lot safer. -- Seen in the release notes for ACPI-support 0.34: 'The "I do not wish to discuss it" release * Add workaround for prodding fans back into life on resume * Add sick evil code for doing sick evil things to sick evil screensavers' _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor