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Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work

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In <ilq5u9lfopj0g8227i5ko9s0lhn1ppcacm@4ax.com> Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> writes:

> number = 7
> guess = -1
> count = 0
>  
> print("Guess the number!")
> while guess != number:
>     guess = int(input("Is it... "))
>     count = count + 1
>     if guess == number:
>         print("Hooray! You guessed it right!")
>     elif guess < number:
>         print("It's bigger...")
>     elif guess > number:
>         print("It's not so big.")
>  
> if count > 3:
>     print("That must have been complicated.")
> else:
>     print("Good job!")

> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python_3/Decisions

> Why not?
> I think I know why it isn't working, but I don't know enough yet on
> how it should work.
> The If statement isn't getting read.

It would help tremendously if you gave us more detail than "it doesn't
work".

Do you get an error message?
Does the program not execute at all?
Does it execute, but give unexpected results?

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Wikibooks example doesn't work Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:58 -0400
  Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-07 13:11 +1000
  Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-08-07 03:18 +0000
  Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-06 23:25 -0400
    Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-07 13:43 +1000
      Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-06 23:48 -0400
        Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-06 21:59 -0700
          Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-08-07 15:06 +1000
          Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-07 11:11 -0400
    Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-08-07 14:09 +1000
    RE: Wikibooks example doesn't work8 Andrew Christianson <Andrew.Christianson@Ipsos.com> - 2014-08-07 03:43 +0000
  Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-07 13:31 +1000

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