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Python

Posted by Fatimah Anwar
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Fatimah Anwar
Android Development Techdegree Student 10,416 Points

IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level

please help me .. I cant figure out what is wrong with my code. 

import random

def game():
      secret_number = random.randint(1,2)
      guesses = []
      while len(guesses) < 5:
        try:
            guess = int(input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: "))
        except ValueError:
            print("{} that is not a number, try again".format(guess))
        else:
            if guess == secret_number:
                print("you got it my number was {}".format(secret_number))
                break
            else:
                print("You miss it!")
            guesses.append(guess)


game()
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

It runs correctly for me. Can you pass the stacktrace dump you are seeing?

1 Answer

Ivan Hromada
Ivan Hromada
4,782 Points

Hey Taflah,

looks like you've used the wrong indentation. You have some tabs there and some one space characters. Correct indetation for python is 4 spaces.

Try this:

import random

def game():
    secret_number = random.randint(1,2)
    guesses = []
    while len(guesses) < 5:
        try:
        guess = int(input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: "))
        except ValueError:
            print("{} that is not a number, try again".format(guess))
        else:
            if guess == secret_number:
                print("you got it my number was {}".format(secret_number))
                break
            else:
                print("You miss it!")
            guesses.append(guess)


game()
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

Interesting! My cut and paste from the OP code must have corrected for the mismatch. Nice work!!

Fatimah Anwar
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Fatimah Anwar
Android Development Techdegree Student 10,416 Points

aha. that makes sense .. thank you