Guessing Game Python Infinite Loop

Question

I am trying to teach myself basic python scripting and create the number guessing game, but I am running into an infinite loop for my while loop. The program will infinitely print the first print statement from the initial entry.

#!/usr/bin/python
import random

print("Here is a guessing game!")
print("Try to guess the number. It is a value from 1-100")

answer = random.randint(1,100)
guess = int(input('Enter your guess: '))
counter = 0

while (guess != answer):
   counter += 1
   if guess < answer:
       print('Your guess is too low!')
   elif guess > answer:
       print('Your guess is too high!')
   else:
       print('Correct!')
       print('It took you' + count + ' guesses.')

Either guess or answer has to be modified inside loop. Here, the guess input should be inside loop so it asks everytime what's your next guess. — Austin
– Austin, Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 3:20

abhishek kasana · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-10 03:26:20Z

2

#Try asking the guess again in each loop until the correct answer and print the counter outside the loop

#!/usr/bin/python
import random

print("Here is a guessing game!")
print("Try to guess the number. It is a value from 1-100")

answer = random.randint(1,100)
guess = int(input('Enter your guess: '))
counter = 0

while (guess != answer):
   counter += 1
   if guess < answer:
       print('Your guess is too low!')
   elif guess > answer:
       print('Your guess is too high!')
   guess = int(input('Try again, your new guess: '))
print('Correct!')
print('It took you' + counter + ' guesses.')

answered Sep 10, 2019 at 3:26

abhishek kasana

1,53214 silver badges14 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

3 Comments

Maddy Over a year ago

OP does not want to have a user input every iteration of the loop

abhishek kasana Over a year ago

But without user input, it doesn't make a number guessing game, because if you just guessed once and the loop runs till it randomly gets that exact number you guessed, I don't see a point there.

Maddy Over a year ago

OP is using a random number? this takes care of the user input every iteration of the loop, hence the user every iteration is invalid

Adji · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-10 03:36:40Z

0

User should input a value inside the loop, so I think you need to change the code to this:

import random

print("Here is a guessing game!")
print("Try to guess the number. It is a value from 1-100")

answer = random.randint(1,100)
guess = int(input('Enter your guess: '))
counter = 0

while (guess != answer):
   counter += 1
   if guess < answer:
       print('Your guess is too low!')
       guess = int(input('Enter your guess: '))
   elif guess > answer:
       print('Your guess is too high!')
       guess = int(input('Enter your guess: '))
   else:
       print('Correct!')
       print('It took you' + str(counter) + ' guesses.')

It's because the user input the guess value once, so when it going in to loop, it will loop forever and print (too low or too high)

edited Sep 10, 2019 at 3:36

answered Sep 10, 2019 at 3:27

Adji

892 silver badges9 bronze badges

2 Comments

Maddy Over a year ago

Similar to comment above, user input in this case is not helpful as the OP is using a random input every time.

Adji Over a year ago

Oh, so why the OP counting the guesses? if the user input just once, just print 'It took you 1 guesses.'. I think the random value are the answer, so we have to guess the random number and count it.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Guessing Game Python Infinite Loop

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

2 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

3 Comments

2 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related