On 2013-05-06, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 06/05/2013 13:06, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2013-05-03, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: >>> In <auil2vfijo...@mid.individual.net> Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> >>> writes: >>> >>>> Not quite yet. Players who guess correctly on the fifth try don't >>>> get credit. >>> >>> Are you sure? tries is initialized to zero and isn't >>> incremented for the initial guess. >> >> while (number != guess) and (tries < 5): >> >> Is the condition that concludes the game. >> >> After the game, you are told you lost if tries is not less than >> five, regardless of if number == guess. > > One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using > superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they > enjoy exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in > conjunction with the 9 or 0 key?
Superflous parenthesis are sometimes a nice aid to comprehension. I don't know about the above case, though. I don't think it hurts anything, but it doesn't add much. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
