Hello, I am writing a little program to test a theory and as part of teaching myself Python. I've only been at this about a week now. I have a program that "should" work but doesn't. It generates a random number between 1 and 2 out to 10 decimal places. I think there is something wrong with how my random number is generated or defined or how my guesses are defined. I added a line to tell me what the random number is and then if I enter it as a guess it doesn't match and exit the loop. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Here is a sample output:
--- I'm thinking out to 10 decimal places. Good luck. 1.14981949962 Make a guess: 1.14981949962 Higher... Make another guess: 1.14981949963 Lower... 1.14981949963 Make another guess: --- Here is my code: --- # Number guessing game # # The computer will choose a number between 1 and 2 (to ten decimal places) # and the player will try to guess the number. The program will tell the # player the number is either higher or lower than the number they guessed. import random import os os.system("clear") print "\nWelcome to 'Guess My Number'!" print "\nI'm thinking of a number between 1 and 2." print "\nYes, that's right. Between 1 and 2." print "\nYou have heard of decimals right? Well, I'm" print "\nthinking out to 10 decimal places. Good luck.\n" # set random value random.seed() number = random.random() + 1 print number guess = float(raw_input("Make a guess: ")) tries = 1 # the guess loop while (guess != number): if (guess > number): print "Lower..." else: print "Higher..." guess = float(raw_input("Make another guess: ")) tries += 1 print "Congratulations! You guessed my number! The number was", number print "It took you only", tries, "tries!\n" # end --- Thanks, Jim -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor