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Old October 4th, 2012, 04:39 PM
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Conditional Statements

Hey! I'm trying to program a very simplistic hangman game, and in doing so, I have to break out of a while loop after so many right guesses or so many wrong guesses. The while loop ends if I have just one conditional statement, but when I include [conditional1 or conditional2] the loop continues infinitely. Is there any way I can remedy this? My code is posted below
Code:
import random

a=['hello', 'goodbye', 'hola', 'chao']
n=random.randrange(0, len(a))
guessRight=0
guessWrong=0

while guessWrong < 7 or guessRight < len(a[n]):
    g=raw_input("Guess a letter: ")
    if(g in a[n]):
        guessRight+=1
        print "Word contains " + str(gr)
    else:
        guessWrong+=1
        print "Incorrect guess\n"

if(guessWrong==7):
    print "You lost"
else:
    print "You win"
    


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Old October 4th, 2012, 05:07 PM
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Boolean

You have to think about what the code actually does in the boolean comparisons.

Code:
while guessWrong < 7 or guessRight < len(a[n]) :
One of these (or both) is always being True, so it's 1 OR 0, and 0 OR 1. Anything OR'ed with 1 will always give a 1, or True result.



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