RE: very newbie question

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Anderson
Try this: # The player tries to guess it and the computer lets # the player know if the guess is too high, too low # or right on the money import random print "\tWelcome to 'Guess My Number'!" print "\nI'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100." print "Try to guess it in as few attempts as pos

RE: very newbie question

2008-08-07 Thread Edwin . Madari
delete the extra 'tries += 1' after else: print "Higher..." tries += 1 #delete this while at it, and add this line as the first line in function ask_number() global the_number, tries good luck. Edwin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: very newbie question

2008-08-07 Thread Ethan Furman
garywood wrote: stuck on python for absolute beginners chapter 6 i actually done what i was supposed to do use the function ask_number for guess a number but for some reason it does not count correctly the number of tries # Guess My Number # # The computer picks a random number between 1 and

Re: very newbie question about exception handling

2007-12-26 Thread James Matthews
In short input runs an eval on the text before it passes it! So input like ord('a') will work fine because it will run that code! On Dec 26, 2007 5:26 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks guys! It worked. > > Merry Christmas! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > --

Re: very newbie question about exception handling

2007-12-25 Thread Louis . Soninhu
Thanks guys! It worked. Merry Christmas! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: very newbie question about exception handling

2007-12-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > code sample: > -- > i=input() > try: > x=int(i) > print "you input an integer" > except ValueError: > print "you must input an integer" > > when I input a value like,