[taymo]

import random
number = random.randint(1,20)
guess=raw_input ("Guess the number I'm thinking of between 1 and 20")
while True:
if guess > number:
print "No, the answer is less than ",guess
elif guess < number:
print "No, the answer is greater than ",guess
elif guess == number:
print "Yes, you guessed correctly! The answer is ",number


This is my current code but when i run it the while loop constantly repeats itself and i cant get out of it. Any tips?

[tlhIn`toq]

while True:

Hello? True will always be true. When would it ever stop?

[darek9576]

Look into break statements. If you type into google High-Low game in Python, you will get many results.

[Tayacan]

What darek9576 said - or I'll just tell you, cause it's not a long explanation. break breaks out of loops. There, that's it. So you just put "break" in your code, wherever you want to exit the loop. Like this:

import random

while True:
    print("I'm stuck in a loop!")
    if random.randrange(0,10) == 4:
        break

print("Yay, I got out of the loop")

[alexr1090]

or just change the while loop to

 
while guess != number:
  ...
  ...
print "Yes, you guessed correctly! The answer is ",number #this will get entered after guess == number, so I took it out of the while loop

This post has been edited by alexr1090: 20 January 2013 - 11:52 AM