Why does my number guessing game fail to start?

Question

I created the numbers game on my own, then reworked it to nearly exactly what Kenneth did. However, I made it in Atom and test it in my terminal shell (rather than Workspaces) to simulate a 'real' development process. I can't figure out why the program won't start. I get no errors, but when I launch the program, it simply acts as though I've pressed 'return' on a blank line. The code is below:

import random

def game():
    # Generate random numer between one and ten.
    secret_num = random.randint(1, 10)
    guesses = []

    while len(guesses) < 5:
            try:
                guess = int(input("Guess a number between one and ten!"))
            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("That's too low!")
                elif guess > secret_num:
                    print("That's too high!")
                else:
                    print("That's not it!")
                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!")
'''

Answer 1 · 2017-05-16T23:53:52Z

May 16, 2017 11:53pm

You don't call the game function within the code, you only define it. Defining the function won't actually cause any of the code to run. If you add a call to the game function on the last line like this:

import random

def game():
    # Generate random numer between one and ten.
    secret_num = random.randint(1, 10)
    guesses = []

    while len(guesses) < 5:
            try:
                guess = int(input("Guess a number between one and ten!"))
            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("That's too low!")
                elif guess > secret_num:
                    print("That's too high!")
                else:
                    print("That's not it!")
                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!")
game() # Call the game function

Then your code should work.

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