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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 03:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
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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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John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
gordon@panix.com    watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.