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Help with simple piece of code

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LawGiver

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so im leerning python :) and was wondering why im getting this piece of code wrong. Whats the difference?

This is correct version:

import random
secret = random.randint(1, 99)
guess = 0
tries = 0
print "AHOY! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, and I have a secret!"
print "It is a number from 1 to 99. I'll give you 6 tries. "


while guess != secret and tries < 6:
guess = input("What's yer guess? ")
if guess < secret:
print "Too low, ye scurvy dog!"
elif guess > secret:
print "Too high, landlubber!"

tries = tries + 1

if guess == secret:
print "Avast! Ye got it! Found my secret, ye did!"
else:
print "No more guesses! Better luck next time, matey!"
print "The secret number was", secret
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This is the incorrect version:

import random
secret = random.randint(1, 99)
guess = 0
tries = 0
print "AHOY! I'm Judge Dread, and I have a secret!"
print "It is a number from 1 to 99. I'll give you 6 tries"

while guess != secret and tries < 6:
guess = input("What's yer guess? ")
if guess < secret:
print "Too low, ye scurvy dog!"
elif guess > secret:
print "Too high, landlubber!"

tries = tries + 1

if guess == secret:
print "Avast! Ye got it! Found my secret, ye did!"
else:
print "No more guesses! Better luck next time matey!"
print "The secret number was", secret
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you use a diff program to tell you the difference. I only see print text differences and an extra blank line
 
yeah i changed it to judge dread. but thats not the problem. The incorrect version acts like i guessed wrong six times even though I have only guessed once.
 
ok, it looks like identation defines blocks in python. You can't tell here because you inserted the examples in a quote block instead of a code block.

in the two examples the indentation is different. In the second example the indentation for if guess == secret makes it a part of the while block. See here:

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fix the indentation and you will solve the problem
 
ug, python means living in perpetual whitespace hell. :)
 
4saken said:
ug, python means living in perpetual whitespace hell. :)
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Because of that I refuse to ever use it without an IDE that punches you in the face with whitespace help. That's the worst design decision in any language I've ever used, I can't understand how Python became semi-popular... well, maybe I understand that most of it is because of lack of competition. Perl is pretty damn bad.
 
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