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Question

A user is Asked to guess a random number (0-999) generated by the computer at the beginning of the program if the users guess is too high or too low, she/he will get feedback from the computer. the user will repetitively guess the

number until the correct answer is guessed. At the end of each game, the user will be asked play

another game and if the user enters'y' or 'Y, the program repeats from the beginning

To Do:

the program generates a random number (0..999)

2. Prompts the user to guess the number between 0 and 999

The program displays one of three responses -greater, less, or correct.

4. Repeat steps 1- 3 until the user enters the corect answer

5. The correct answer should be displayed with the number of tries.

6. Next, ask the user to play the game again or not. if yes, go back to the first step.

Answer 1

Here's a good way to do it:

import random

answer = random.randint(0, 1000) # Up to but not including 1000

while True:

guess = int(input("Guess a number: "))

if answer == guess:

print("You win!")

break

elif guess < answer:

print("Too low!")

elif guess > answer:

print("Too high!")

I like this approach because it allows me to control when exactly I'm done with the while loop, with the break statement. I never really liked using while loop conditions, but that's my personal preference.

If you want to make the condition be in the while loop instead, we can modify the code slightly:

import random

answer = random.randint(0, 1000) # Up to but not including 1000

guess = int(input("Guess a number: "))

while guess != answer:

if guess < answer:

print("Too low!")

elif guess > answer:

print("Too high!")

guess = int(input("Guess a number: "))

if guess == answer:

print("You win!")

There's some code duplication here as you can see, as we have to ask for input in two different places. Also, the guess is at the bottom of the while loop - sort of annoying and not very intuitive.

Here's some output:

Guess a number: 500

Too high!

Guess a number: 300

Too high!

Guess a number: 100

Too high!

Guess a number: 50

Too low!

Guess a number: 75

Too low!

Guess a number: 80

Too low!

Guess a number: 90

Too high!

Guess a number: 88

Too high!

Guess a number: 87

Too high!

Guess a number: 85

You win!

I left out the play again part - I'll leave that to you as an exercise.