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

0

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

edited Oct 29, 2013 at 20:57

Paul Draper

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answered Oct 29, 2013 at 20:50

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impactblu Over a year ago

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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