I noticed an error in my code...and got a cool tip on how to add an "out of range" response if the user types in a number outside of 1-100.
Enjoy! Malcolm # guess.py # a simple number guessing game import random #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- def nope_message(random_num): return "Nope! I'm smarter than you!\nI was thinking of the number: %d" % int(random_num) def right_message(retried=False): message = "That was right! I guess you ARE smarter than me" if retried: message += "... even though it took you another try!" return message def reread_input(message): return int(input("You were too %s. Type another number: " % message)) def retry(message, random_num): guess_iflow = reread_input(message) if guess_iflow == random_num: return right_message(True) else: return nope_message(random_num) #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ def main(): print "Do you think you're smarter than me?" print "I guess we'll see!" print "I'm thinking of a number between 1 - 100. Can you guess what it is?" random_num = random.randint(1, 100) while True: guess = int(input("Type a number between 1 - 100: ")) if guess < 1 or guess > 100: print "%s is out of range try again" % guess continue break if guess == random_num: print right_message() elif guess < random_num:# user gets second chance if number is too low print retry("low", random_num) elif guess > random_num:# user gets second chance if number is too high print retry("high", random_num) else: print nope_message(random_num) if __name__ == "__main__": main() -----Original Message----- From: Donald Bedsole [mailto:drbeds...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:54 PM To: Malcolm Newsome Subject: Re: [Tutor] Guessing Game Program Hi Malcolm :-) On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Malcolm Newsome <malcolm.news...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Don! > > I posted an eerily similar request to another python group about two > weeks ago! I, too, am very new to programming and the guessing game > was my first shot at writing a script from scratch! I got interested in writing a guessing game because I was trying to fix a C++ program that wouldn't compile with g++ because they were using a non-standard randomizer() function. (I really don't know C++, but I thought trying to fix the problems with someone else's program might help me to learn). I didn't make much headway in understanding how to generate random numbers in C++, but it made me curious about how to do it in Python. Python seems much easier! > > Below is my code (improved with some help from others). I still would > like to make some improvements to it also. But, perhaps there will be > some ideas in it that can help you as well! Looking forward to learning and growing! > > All the best! > > Malcolm Thanks for posting your code. I will look at it later (closing in on 1:00 AM here) to see what I can learn from it. Tutorials are great, but it seems looking at code makes it easier for me to learn. Thanks for taking the time to post, and I hope you're successful in your programming studies. Don _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor