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Python

Posted by Matt Brown
Matt Brown
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Number Guessing Game - Getting Error: "TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation on line 9.

import random

def game(): # generate a random number between 1 and 10 secret_num = random.randint(1,10) guesses = []

# Limit the number of guesses
while len(guesses) < 5:
    try:
        # get a number guess from the player
        guess = int(input('Guess a number between 1 and 10: '))
    # Catch when someone submits a non-integer
    except ValueError:
        print("{} Isn't a number!".format(guess))
    else:
# compare guess to secret number
        if guess == secret_num:
            # print hit/miss
            print('You got it! My number was {}'.format(secret_num))
            break
        # Print 'too low' or 'too high' messages for bad guesses
        elif guess > secret_num:
            print("Too high!")

        else:
            print("Too low!")

        guesses.append(guess)

else:
    print("GAME OVER, my number was {}".format(secret_num))

# Let people play again
play_again = input('Do you want to play again? y/n')
if play_again.lower() == 'y':
    game()
else:
    print("Deuces!")

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! Python depends a lot on white space. And you may not use both tabs and spaces inside the same file for indentation. You need to stick to one. Otherwise, you will get the tab indentation error. So if you started this project, and used tab to for your first indentation, you need to do the same thing for every indentation. Likewise for spaces. Hope this helps! :sparkles: