Chad Everett wrote: > Hi all, I am new to the group. Trying to learn Python programming on my > own. I am working through Michael Dawson's Book Python Programming for the > absolute beginner. > > I am tring to write a program that is a number guessing game. I want to be > able to give the user 5 tries to guess the number before the program ends. > > I get the result that I want when the user misses after the 5th try. But it > does not go down to my closing statement to end. Rather is askes for > another guess.
Because even after 5 tries, guess != the_number. You won't get past the while loop until it does. When there have been 5 misses, try setting guess=the_number. > > I appreciate any help you can give. If this is not the correct group for > these types of questions, I apologize and hope that you can direct me to > another NG. > > Thanks, > Chad > > import random > > print "\tWelcome to 'Guess my Number'!" > print "\nI'm Thinking of a Number between 1 and 100." > print "\nTry to Guess it in as few attempts as possible.\n" > > #Set the initial values > the_number = random.randrange(100) + 1 > guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess:")) > tries = 1 > > #Guessing Loop > > while (guess != the_number): > if (guess >the_number): > print "Lower..." > else: > print "Higher..." > guess = int(raw_input("Take another Guess:")) > tries +=1 > if tries == 5: > print "Sorry you lose." > print "The Correct Number was ", the_number > > > print "You guess correctly!!" > print "The number was:", the_number > print "You got it correct in", tries, "tries" > > raw_input("Press Enter to exit the program") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list