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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App Number Game Introduction

Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points
Posted by Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points

I get a syntax error everytime I run the script

import random
secret_number = random.randint (1, 10)


while true:
  guess = int(input("Can you guess my number between 1 and 10? "))
  if guess == secret_number:
    print("You got it. The number was {}".format(secret_number))
    break
  else:
    print("Come on you can do better. Guess again! ")

3 Answers

Steven Ang
Steven Ang
41,751 Points
Steven Ang
Steven Ang
41,751 Points

The issue is caused by this piece of code:

while true:

The letter t in true needs to be capitalised or else it won't work. Just fix that then it will work.

while True:
Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points
Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points

still the same error

import random
secret_number = random.randint (1, 10)


while True:
  guess = int(input("Can you guess my number between 1 and 10? "))
  if guess == secret_number:
    print("You got it. The number was {}".format(secret_number))
    break
  else:
    print("Come on you can do better. Guess again! ")
Steven Ang
Steven Ang
41,751 Points
Steven Ang
Steven Ang
41,751 Points

Did you save your workspaces? I copy-paste your code into workspaces and It works just fine.

Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points
Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points

I tried doing the number challenge by myself and the below error is what I get when I run the script:

treehouse:~/workspace$ python
Python 3.5.0 (default, Apr 13 2017, 18:07:59)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

python number_game.py
File "<stdin>", line 1
python number_game.py
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points
Abdullah Jassim
Abdullah Jassim
4,551 Points

I found out my mistake. I ran the script in the python shell.