Question

I’m learning python with a book that teaches by creating games. I have to write the code so I input a number and the computer makes educated guesses based on higher or lower input. I keep getting an error after inputting my number:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Rayvenx\Desktop\My_programs\Number_game_pcguess.py", line 7, in 
    highlow = raw_input("\nIs it", guess, "?:")
TypeError: [raw_]input expected at most 1 arguments, got 3

Here’s the code:

import random

number = raw_input("\nWhat is your number 1-100? :")

guess = random.randrange(100) + 1

highlow = raw_input("\nIs it", guess, "?:")

while guess != number:
    if highlow == "lower":
        guess = random.randrange(100) + 1  guess

        highlow = raw_input("\nIs it", guess, "?:")


print "\nHaha! I win!"

raw_input("\n\nPress enter to exit game.")

Answer 1

Your problem is that you are giving raw_input three arguments when it expects one 😉

But, seriously: your calls which look like raw_input("is it", guess, "?:") should use Python’s string formatting to format the string being passed to raw_input: raw_input("is it %s?" %(guess, )).