Question

This is an example in the Python book I’m reading. When I try to run the program there’s an error, and when I check the code for the error elif is highlighted in red. I’m programming in Python 2.5.

import random

secret = random.randint(1, 99)
guess = 0
tries = 0

print "It is a number between 1 and 99. I'll give you six tries. "

while guess != secret and tries < 6:
    guess = input("What's your guess? ")
    if guess < secret:
        print "Too low!"
        elif guess > secret:
            print "Too high"
            tries = tries + 1
            if guess == secret:
                print "Correct! You found my secret!"
                else:
                    print "No more guesses! Better luck next time!"
                    print "The secret number was", secret 

Answer 1

Python is indentation sensitive.

import random

secret = random.randint(1, 99)
guess = 0
tries = 0

print "It is a number between 1 and 99. I'll give you six tries. "

while guess != secret and tries < 6:
    guess = input("What's your guess? ")
    if guess < secret:
        print "Too low!"
    elif guess > secret:
        print "Too high"
        tries = tries + 1
    elif guess == secret:
        print "Correct! You found my secret!"
    else:
        print "No more guesses! Better luck next time!"
        print "The secret number was", secret 

Edit: I know there are still bugs in this, such as tries = tries + 1 which should be somewhere else in the code. But this version at least does not give syntax errors.