Greetings all, It seems I forgot to subscribe to the list so I didn't receive any of the replies. However, I did check the archive and found all of the very helpful suggestions. Thanks for your time.
Based on the replies I was able to get this to more or less work. However, one problem still exists. If you guess a number that is slightly larger than the random number it evaluates to correct For example: ---- The number is 1.78889511441 Make a guess: 1.788895114455 Congratulations! You guessed my number! The number was 1.78889511441 It took you only 1 tries! --- Or even: --- 1.36344601965 Make a guess: 1.3634460196 Congratulations! You guessed my number! The number was 1.36344601965 It took you only 1 tries! --- I'm also unclear as to how it is choosing a random number out to 10 decimal places. Is that the default and it's just coincidence that I chose 10? What if I want a random number to 20 decimal places or five? Here is the 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 (abs(number-guess) > 0.0000000001): if guess > number: print "Lower..." elif guess < number: print "Higher..." tries += 1 if guess != number: guess = float(raw_input("Make another guess: ")) print "\nCongratulations! You guessed my number! The number was", number print "\nIt took you only", tries, "tries!\n" # end Thanks again, 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