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Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop

From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop
Date 2013-05-03 18:21 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <km0v7u$op4$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <24c5856e-a30a-41bd-aa4a-0e594734e1f8@googlegroups.com> <02b65e11-89c6-4639-9d93-27e1f90eed66@googlegroups.com>

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In <02b65e11-89c6-4639-9d93-27e1f90eed66@googlegroups.com> ryankoch38@gmail.com writes:

> Okay, thank you very much for the timely replies, heres what i have now:

> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")

> import random

> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> tries = 0
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :"))

> while (guess != number):
>     if (guess > number):
>         number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is lower than that! \n Try again:"))
>         tries += 1
>     else:
>         number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is higher than that! \n Try again:"))
>         tries += 1
>         
>         print "good job, you won!"
>         


> raw_input("\n\n Press any key to exit..")


> ## it seems to stick with "higher" or "lower" after my first guess, whichever it 
> ## is

When the user re-enters their guess in the while loop, you're assigning
the input to "number" instead of "guess".

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First python program, syntax error in while loop ryankoch38@gmail.com - 2013-05-03 10:18 -0700
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-05-03 17:27 +0000
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-05-03 19:26 +0200
    Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-05-03 17:37 +0000
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-03 18:36 +0100
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-03 12:37 -0500
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop ryankoch38@gmail.com - 2013-05-03 10:57 -0700
    Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-05-03 18:21 +0000
      Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop ryankoch38@gmail.com - 2013-05-03 11:34 -0700
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop ryankoch38@gmail.com - 2013-05-03 12:52 -0700
    Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-05-03 20:04 +0000
  Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop ryankoch38@gmail.com - 2013-05-03 13:15 -0700
    Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-03 20:30 +0000
      Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-05-03 20:38 +0000
        Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-06 12:06 +0000
          Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-06 13:37 +0100
            Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-06 13:07 +0000
            Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-06 09:08 -0400
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 06:36 -0700
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 23:37 +1000
                Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-05-06 11:31 -0400
                Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-06 16:11 -0400
                Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 07:50 +1000
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-06 20:16 -0400
            Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 17:17 -0700
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-06 20:18 -0400
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-05-07 05:03 +0000
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-07 07:10 +0100
              Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 19:19 +1000

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