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Python Python Basics (Retired) Pick a Number! Any Number! The Solution

Posted by Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan
Courses Plus Student 2,841 Points

I tried solving this way. Is my code easily readable or should I make any changes? Need your feedback.

import random

random_number = random.randint(1, 10)
number_of_guesses = 0

def guessingGame(guess):
    if guess == random_number:
        return ["You won! You guessed the number {} in {} tries.".format(random_number, number_of_guesses), True]
    return ["Wrong! Try again.", False]

while number_of_guesses < 5:
    number_of_guesses += 1
    guess = input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: ")
    try:
        guess = int(guess)
        result_list = guessingGame(guess)
        print(result_list[0])
        if result_list[1] == True:
            break
    except:
        print("That's not a whole number. Retry.")

3 Answers

man odell
man odell
1,905 Points
man odell
man odell
1,905 Points

GJ

Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan
Courses Plus Student 2,841 Points

Didn't get you, ?

Sara Chicazul
Sara Chicazul
7,475 Points
Sara Chicazul
Sara Chicazul
7,475 Points

I found your code easy to read! The one suggestion I have is to include a "game over" message if the player fails to guess the number in five tries. Your current code will just print "Wrong, try again!" and then not accept another guess.

Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan
Courses Plus Student 2,841 Points

Alright. I'll do that. Thanks for giving a feedback on this, Sara.

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

Hey Arshad. Your code looks great and very readable. I would suggest running your app in a while True loop so that the user can keep playing the game until he wants to exit. Use can use a specific user input as a keyword to exit the while loop. For example "Quit", "Stop", "Exit"

Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan
Courses Plus Student 2,841 Points

Anish, the problem stated limiting the number of chances to five, otherwise, I believe I could have used implemented that using ifs and elifs.

Thanks for the feedback!

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

Yes. I just mean't if that even if the user fails or succeeds to get the answer, a new instance of the game begins until the user explicitly states that he/she wants to leave the game :)

Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan
Courses Plus Student 2,841 Points

Oh! Nice.