Python programming question.?

Question

Listing_1-2.py
# Copyright Warren Sande, 2009
# Released under MIT license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
# Version 61 ----------------------------

# Number Guess game

import random

secret = random.randint(1, 99) # pick a secret number
guess = 0
tries = 0

print "AHOY! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, and I have a secret!"
print "It is a number from 1 to 99. I'll give you 6 tries. "

# try until they guess it or run out of turns
while guess != secret and tries < 6:
guess = input("What's yer guess? ") # get the player's guess
if guess < secret:
print "Too low, ye scurvy dog!"
elif guess > secret:
print "Too high, landlubber!"
tries = tries + 1 # used up one try

# print message at end of game
if guess == secret:
print "Avast! Ye got it! Found my secret, ye did!"
else:
print "No more guesses! Better luck next time, matey!"
print "The secret number was", secret

I just got a book about learning python,and i enter this exact code from the book,and i either get errors or the guessing game only gives me 2-4 guesses instead of the 6 it is supposed to give me.
This is really frustrating me.I can't figure out what i am doing wrong.Something stupid i am sure.

I got python 2.5 and 2.6 installed could that be the problem?

Answer 1

You need to tab for your blocks.

And there is an issue with the:



if guess == secret:

print "Avast! Ye got it! Found my secret, ye did!"

else:

print "No more guesses! Better luck next time, matey!"

print "The secret number was", secret







I tweaked the code a bit and it works fine for me:



# Copyright Warren Sande, 2009

# Released under MIT license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-l…

# Version 61 ----------------------------



# Number Guess game



import random



secret = random.randint(1, 99) # pick a secret number

guess = 0

tries = 0



print "AHOY! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, and I have a secret!"

print "It is a number from 1 to 99. I'll give you 6 tries. "

print ""



# try until they guess it or run out of turns

while guess != secret and tries < 6:

guess = input("What's yer guess? ") # get the player's guess

if guess < secret:

print "Too low, ye scurvy dog!"

print ""

elif guess > secret:

print "Too high, landlubber!"

print ""

tries = tries + 1 # used up one try

if guess == secret:

print "Avast! Ye got it! Found my secret, ye did!"

print ""



if tries >= 6:

print "No more guesses! Better luck next time, matey!"

print "The secret number was", secret

print ""

else:

print "Congratulations!"















just make sure that you tab over for if and while blocks, if you send me a private message, i can send you the file with the exact formatting.

Answer 2

First, make sure your code is formatted correctly. since I can't see the formatting, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that "tries = tries + 1" isn't in the right spot. It should be lined up with "guess = input("What's yer guess? ") " Also, judging from the fact that the book uses print and not print(), I'm guessing that the book does not use 3.0.

Answer 3

If you have read anything about sound in "Console-Mode" Python, that's because there is no sound feature with Console Python. You need to learn wxPython or PyGame or maybe even Tkinter (I think supports sound features)