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Re: First python program, syntax error in while loop

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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM,  <ryankoch38@gmail.com> wrote:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
>
> import random
>
> tries = 0
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")

First up, there's a missing ) on each call to int(), which is causing
the syntax error you see.   The error points at "while" because
"while" doesn't make sense in the call to int().

>
> while (guess != number):
> if (guess > number):

After fixing the error above, you'll have another one here: you
haven't indented the block to be executed in the while loop.
Indentation is important in Python, it delimits code blocks and makes
things more readable for people.

>     number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is lower than that! \n Try again:")
>    tries += 1

There's also another indentation error here: everything in the same
block has to be indented to the same level.

> else if (guess < number):
>     number = int(raw_input("Sorry, my number is higher than that! \n Try again:")
>     tries += 1
> print "Congratulations, you guessed my number! \n And it only took you" tries "tries!"

And here will be another syntax error: you have to separate your
arguments to 'print' with commas.

>
> raw_input("\n\n Press any key to exit..")
>
> ## what is wrong with this script? I'm just trying to understand while loops and ## this is not a real project :P


Once you have those errors fixed, I'll bet I can guess your number on
the second try every time.  I'll let you figure out why yourself,
though ;).

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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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