While Loop not breaking (Python)-CodePudding

I've worked with while loops and the such before, but this one simply won't reach the conditions to break. This game is about finding hidden things in boxes. I've put a little bit of code that won't be there in the actual game that helps me verify what box is being hidden. The range of boxes is from 1 to 5 inclusive and is random each time the game starts again. I've started with the guess-box as false as I needed something to fill the space and turned the in_box into a string just in case.

from random import randrange
in_box = randrange(1, 5)
str(in_box)
guess_box = False
print("To guess which box enter in the numbers that each box relates to, eg, Box 1 will be the number 1! Ready? Set? Go!")
while guess_box != in_box:
    print(f"I was in box {in_box}")
    guess_box = input("Which box? ")
    if guess_box == in_box:
       print("Great job, you found me!")
       break
    else:
       print("I'm still hiding!!")
print("Thank you for playing")

CodePudding user response：

You are setting in_box to a string and not saving it. you need to do in_box=str(in_box):

from random import randrange
in_box = randrange(1, 5)
in_box = str(in_box)
guess_box = False
print("To guess which box enter in the numbers that each box relates to, eg, Box 1 will be the number 1! Ready? Set? Go!")
while guess_box != in_box:
  print(f"I was in box {in_box}")
  guess_box = input("Which box? ")
  if guess_box == in_box:
     print("Great job, you found me!")
     break
  else:
     print("I'm still hiding!!")
print("Thank you for playing")

Without this, the condition to break the loop is never met.

CodePudding user response：

you need to cast the input to an integer type, the default type for input() is str.

the result is logic like '1' == 1 , which is false so the condition never passes.

from random import randrange
in_box = randrange(1, 5)
str(in_box)
guess_box = False
print("To guess which box enter in the numbers that each box relates to, eg, Box 1 will be the number 1! Ready? Set? Go!")
while guess_box != in_box:
  print(f"I was in box {in_box}")
  guess_box = input("Which box? ")
  if int(guess_box) == in_box:
     print("Great job, you found me!")
     break
  else:
     print("I'm still hiding!!")
print("Thank you for playing")

works, note int() around guess-box in if condition.