Having trouble coding a beginner game

[Hamy Li]

In a book that I'm learning, there is a project which I have to create a game called "Guess my number". In this game, I pick a number from 1 to 100 and let the computer guess my number. I don't know how code control the numbers i type

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number = raw_input("Enter a Number: ")
if number < "1":
  print "invalid"
if number > "100":
  print "invalid
else:
  print "continue"
 
 

i don't know what is wrong with this
can anyone please help. will really appreciate
I'm using python 2.5

[dazzler]

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number = raw_input("Enter a Number: ")
if number < "1":
  print "invalid"
if number > "100":
  print "invalid
else:
  print "continue"
 
 

instead of if number < "1":
try this if number < 1:
if you use "" it means that it is text not numbers

and now your raw_input will be saved as text (string) also, and it can't compare text and numbers, so you have to convert it to numeric using float() or int()

number = float(raw_input("enter number"))

[Laharl]

You need to convert your raw_input to an integer with the int() function. Thus, you can use integer comparisons (which will give the correct results), not string comparisons.

>>>number = raw_input("Please enter a number: ")
Please enter a number: 14
>>>print number
14
>>>number < "100"
False
>>>number > "1"
True
>>>number = int(raw_input("Please enter a number: ")
Please enter a number: 14
>>>number < 100
True
 

The >>> means this is code that I ran on the Python interactive shell.

[Hamy Li]

thank you very much for all your help. really saved my time.
I also have a new question based on the same game.

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 possible.\n"
# set the initial values
the_number = random.randrange(100) + 1
guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
tries = 1
# guessing loop
while (guess != the_number):
    if (guess > the_number):
        print "Lower..."
    else:
        print "Higher..."
 
    guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
    tries += 1
print "You guessed it! The number was", the_number
print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n"
 

how do i reverse this game so that i pick a number and the computer has to guess what number it is.
I tried to code it but i got stuck.
any help would be grateful

[bvdet]

Here I will use random.choice for the computer to select a number. I will give the computer a hint 'lower' and 'higher' each time. Each choice will be removed from the possible choices.

import random
 
def guess_number_rev(lower=1, upper=100):
    number = int(raw_input('Enter a number between %d and %d' % (lower, upper)))
    # list of possible guesses
    guessList = (range(lower,upper+1))
    if number not in guessList:
        print 'Invalid entry! Exiting...'
        return
    # get a random number
    guess = random.choice(range(lower,upper+1))
    # remove first guess
    guessList.remove(guess)
    # create a list of guesses the computer made
    guesses = [guess, ]
    while True:
        if guess > number:
            guess = random.choice([num for num in guessList if num < guess])
        elif guess < number:
            guess = random.choice([num for num in guessList if num > guess])
        else:
            break
        guessList.remove(guess)
        guesses.append(guess)
    print 'The number entered: %d' % number
    print 'It took the computer %d guesses' % (len(guesses))
    print 'Guesses made:\n%s' % '\n'.join([str(n) for n in guesses])
 
guess_number_rev()  
 

Sample output:
>>> The number entered: 67
It took the computer 8 guesses
Guesses made:
49
79
23
29
61
94
62
67
>>>

[Hamy Li]

thanks for the help. may I ask what version of python you are using?
because when i wrote the code in python and tried to run it
if comes up with this error

Token Error: EOF in multi-line statement

what does this error mean?

[Laharl]

Check your indentation/spacing at the very end of the file, as you've probably got something screwed up there.

[Hamy Li]

A new question.
In a book I'm using, It has a few challenges every chapter. In the chapter I'm reviewing right now, It wants me make a program where the computer lets the user write a message the then prints the message backwards. I know this may sound very easy, but all i can use in my coding is the skills in that chapter.
the skills included in that chapter is
indexing
slicing
for loops
random.choice
creating tuples
using tuples.

using only these skills, i can't seem to figure how to print a message backwards.

print "Welcome to the backward machine. "
print "Write in a message and the computer will print it backwards"
 
message = raw_input("Enter a message: ")

there were my first 3 lines. after that, I tried using indexing and for loops but non came out right.
Please help.

thank you

[Laharl]

Did your book cover reverse/negative indexing? That might be of use...

[jlm699]

Are you allowed to use list reversal?

print 'Welcome to the backward machine.'
print 'Write in a message and the computer will print it backwards'
 
message = raw_input('Enter a message: ')
new_msg = ''
rev_idx = range(len(message))
rev_idx.reverse()
for idx in rev_idx:
    new_msg += message[idx]
 
print 'The backwards message is:', new_msg

Output:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pythtests>python bckmch.py
Welcome to the backward machine.
Write in a message and the computer will print it backwards
Enter a message: wtf
The backwards message is: ftw
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pythtests>
 

[bvdet]

Here is another possibility:

>>> word = 'supposition'
>>> print ''.join([word[i] for i in range(len(word)-1, -1, -1)])
noitisoppus
>>> 

[Hamy Li]

thanks alot to all of you.
great help.

[Hamy Li]

the below program chooses a random word then asks the user to guess a letter.
the user has 5 tries to guess a letter. After 5 tries, the user has to guess the word its self. I tried coding this program. It worked, but i want to know if there is a better way of writing this program. because as you can see, it is very long for such a small program. how can a loop be used in this program instead of the separate 5 if-else commands.

import random
WORDS = ("happy", "sad", "congratulations", "normal", "bad", "smart")
word = random.choice(WORDS)
tries = 1
print "There are", len(word), "letters in this word."
 
guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
if guess in word:
    print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word. "
else:
    print "\nthe letter is not in the word"
tries += 1
 
guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
if guess in word:
    print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word. "
else:
    print "\nthe letter is not in the word"
tries += 1
 
guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
if guess in word:
    print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word. "
else:
    print "\nthe letter is not in the word"
tries += 1
 
guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
if guess in word:
    print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word. "
else:
    print "\nthe letter is not in the word"
tries += 1
 
guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
if guess in word:
    print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word. "
else:
    print "\nthe letter is not in the word"
tries += 1
 
print " you do not have any more guesses"
print "please guesses the word"
guess_words = raw_input("\nEnter you guess of the word: ")
if guess_words == word:
    print "Congratulations, you guessed it"
else:
    print "sorry, you failed"
 
raw_input("\n\nPress the Enter key to exit")

thanks

ohh. and how do i post codes as python codes so the color shows?

[Subsciber123]

Firstly, you show python code by using the code tags, but putting "=python" after the word "CODE"

Secondly, yes, you can use loops.

The first thing you should do is get rid of the variable "tries". You don't use it for anything.
Next, put one of your if statements inside a for loop as so, and get rid of the rest of them:

for i in range(5):
    guess = raw_input("Enter the letter you want to guess: ")
    if guess in word:
        print "\nthe letter you picked is in the word."
    else:
        print "\nthe letter is not in the word"