Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python

Chapter 7Guess the Number

In Chapter 6 we looked at for loops. In this chapter, we’ll look at conditional loops and use one to build a Guess The Number game.

Conditional Loops

You now know how to use for loops. As a reminder, these are used to loop through a finite set of options.

Conditional loops loop based on a condition. They are the more powerful and flexible type of loops, and they also tend to be the one you’ll use most.

Let’s start with a simple (and useless) example. Create file Loop4.py and type the following:

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# Get some input
userInput=input("Say something, say STOP to stop: ").upper().strip()

# Loop ...