How do I end my while loop in python

Question

I am trying to create a guessing game for myself. I want to have the computer have a random number which I have to guess. Based on what I guess, it would then respond with "higher or lower" and this should keep happening before i get the right number however what has happened is that now when I put in a guess, it says higher or lower and just repeats this throughout the page. How do I end this loop and make sure that after each "higher" or "lower" i just get another change. Please find code below.

import random the_number = random.randrange(100)+ 1 guess= int(raw_input("Take a guess: ")) tries = 1 while (guess != the_number): if (guess > the_number): print "Lower..." break elif (guess<the_number): print " Higher..." break elif (guess == the_number): print "Awesome achievement" break else: print "Better luck next time." guess = int(raw_input("Take another guess "))

This has been asked and answered on numerous occasion.

Nafiul Islam
– Nafiul Islam

2013-10-29 20:47:17 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:47 — Nafiul Islam
– Nafiul Islam, Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:47
@GamesBrainiac, include URL.

Paul Draper
– Paul Draper

2013-10-29 20:48:11 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:48 — Paul Draper
– Paul Draper, Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:48
Got it: stackoverflow.com/questions/14011149/…

Paul Draper
– Paul Draper

2013-10-29 20:49:01 +00:00
Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:49 — Paul Draper
– Paul Draper, Commented Oct 29, 2013 at 20:49

Paul Draper · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-29 20:45:36Z

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import random the_number = random.randrange(100) + 1 tries = 0 while True: tries += 1 guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: ")) if guess > the_number: print "Lower..." elif guess < the_number: print " Higher..." else: print "Awesome achievement, it took you", tries, "tries" break

answered Oct 29, 2013 at 20:45

Paul Draper

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2 Comments

Timothy Armoo Over a year ago

So what exactly was I doing wrong then? I would like to really understand the theory behind what I was doing wrong? Thank you.

Paul Draper Over a year ago

You need to put the guess = int(raw_input(.. inside the loop, and don't break until you're done.

Paul Draper · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-29 20:57:04Z

something like this

import random def main(): secret = random.randint(1, 10) while (guess != secret): guess = int(raw_input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: ")) if guess > secret: print "too high." elif guess < secret: print "too low." elif guess <1 or guess > 10: print "invalid guess." elif guess == secret: print "You win" break

Yea I wrote it in sublime and copied it over but it didn't take the formatting over :S. everything after define main should be indented

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