Python Guessing Game not doing what I want it to do-CodePudding

Bear with me, I am a beginner.

Here is my code for a simple version of Guessing Game. I know that it can be written in a way more efficient way, but please help and let me know why what I wrote isn't working. Not matter what letter I type, h, or l, it keeps on looping over the first letter that I picked.

high = 100
low = 0
guess = ((low   high) / 2)

print("Please think of a number between"   str(high)   " and "   str(low))

answer = input("Is your secret number "   str(guess)   "?\n"
                                                       "Enter 'h' to indicate the guess is "
                                                       "too high. Enter 'l' to indicate the guess "
                                                       "is too low. Enter 'c' to indicate I "
                                                       "guessed correctly.")

while guess != 0:
    if answer == "h":
        high = guess
        guess = ((low   high) / 2)
        input("Is your secret number "   str(guess)   "?\n"
                                                  "Enter 'h' to indicate the guess is "
                                                  "too high. Enter 'l' to indicate the guess "
                                                  "is too low. Enter 'c' to indicate I "
                                                  "guessed correctly.")
    elif answer == "l":
        low = guess
        guess = ((low   high) / 2)
        input("Is your secret number "   str(guess)   "?\n"
                                                  "Enter 'h' to indicate the guess is "
                                                  "too high. Enter 'l' to indicate the guess "
                                                  "is too low. Enter 'c' to indicate I "
                                                  "guessed correctly.")
    elif answer == "c":
        print("Game over. Your secret number was "   str(guess))
        break
    else:
        print("Sorry, I did not understand your input."
              "Is your secret number "   str(guess)   "?\n"
                                                      "Enter 'h' to indicate the guess is "
                                                      "too high. Enter 'l' to indicate the guess "
                                                      "is too low. Enter 'c' to indicate I "
                                                      "guessed correctly.")

CodePudding user response：

You need to put the line answer = input("Is your secret number ...") inside the while loop, so that each time, the program gets a new input. This would be:

...
while guess != 0:
    answer = input("Is your secret number ...")
    if answer == 'h':
        ...

I also recommend you use f-strings to print out numbers, so instead of:

print("Please think of a number between"   str(high)   " and "   str(low))

you can just write:

print(f"Please think of a number between {high} and {low}")

To learn more about f-strings, check out this page.