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Jake Wright
Courses Plus Student 991 Pointspython number_game.py wont run
Whenever I try to run the script in workspaces I get no error message or anything, I was wondering where I went wrong
import random
def game():
# generate a random number between 1 and 10
secret_num = random.randint(1,10)
guesses = []
while len(guesses) < 5:
try:
# get a number guess from the player
guess = int(input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: "))
except ValueError:
print("{} isn't a number!".format(guess))
else:
# compare guess to secret number
if guess == secret_num:
print("You got it! My number was {}".format(secret_num))
break
elif guess < secret_num:
print("my number is higher than {}".format(guess))
else:
print("my number is lower than {}".format(guess))
guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("you didn't get it! My number was {}".format(secret_num))
play_again = input("Do you want to play again? Y/n")
if play_again.lower() != 'n':
game()
else:
print("Bye!")
[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]
2 Answers

Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 67,987 PointsHow are you starting the first game()
? If running interactively, you can add game()
as the last line in the file.
The more elegant solution is to add the python idiom to the end of the file:
if __name__ = '__main__':
game()
This will automatically call game
if the module is interpreted in an interactive context, such as, python number_game.py
. if number_game
is imported into another module, this gets ignored.

Jake Wright
Courses Plus Student 991 PointsCongrats Chris, Thank you so much
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 67,987 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 67,987 PointsWoohoo!! This was my 2000th answer provided on the Treehouse Community Forum!!