On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:51 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > "Bold” assumes that markup of text will survive; that's not reliable, > since this is a text-only medium and only the plain text will reliably > survive to all readers. Sorry, I didn’t realize. I’m still new to this. > > You're creating a prompt string, so this is a good choice of name; > except that its correct spelling is “prompt”. Haha, I didn’t even catch that, thx.
> This is valuable! Thinking about what the values mean is vital to > understanding what the program is doing, which is of course a big part > of what you're in this to learn. That’s where I’ve been getting the most confused, because the instructor is giving variables he wants used and I was having a hard time figuring out what some of them were doing. I think I have a better understanding now though. > >> def print_hints(secrets, guess): >> secret_number = secret > > You never use this “secret_number” name again, so the binding is > useless. What was your intention? I honestly don’t know, I’ve since taken that out completely. > > You also never use the “secrets” parameter; and the “secret” name was > not bound before you used it. Have you mis-spelled one of those? > >> guess = guess > > I don't know what the point of this no-op assignment is. What are you > trying to do? > >> if guess < 0 or user_guess> 101: > > Likewise, you never bind the name “user_guess”. Where are you expecting > it to be bound? That was a mistake. I’m trying to get it to print “Out of range” if the user guesses a number out of the range of 1-100. > > > I suspect at this point you've been flailing around without much > understanding of the changes you're making. This leads to a confused > mass of code that you can't understand or explain. Yes, correct. > > Better would be to experiment at the interactive Python prompt to test > what these changes *do*, before putting them into your code. Reduce the > mechanisms down to very minimal cases, and try them out; confirm your > assumptions and guesses. Only then should you plan a change to the > program file. Ok that makes sense. Thanks again!
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