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Reputation: 3

CS50P: "timed out while waiting for program to exit"

I'm trying to solve the "Guessing Game" problem in the Harvard CS50P course (problem set 4). The assignment is to prompt the user for a number x , generate a random number y in the range 1-x, and then have the user guess y, exiting the program when the guess is correct. Any input that's not a number should reprompt the user. It works just fine in the console, but I get the "timed out while waiting for program to exit" error when I check the code with check50. I assume the problem is caused by the while loop in the main() function and tried rephrasing it multiple ways, but I still couldn't fix it. I copied my code below, any help or tip is appreciated!

check50 output:

:) game.py exists

:) game.py rejects non-numeric level

:) game.py rejects out-of-range level

:) game.py accepts valid level

:) game.py rejects non-numeric guess

:) game.py rejects out-of-range guess

:) game.py outputs "Too large!" when guess is too large

:( game.py outputs "Just right!" when guess is correct

timed out while waiting for program to exit

:) game.py outputs "Too small!" when guess is too small

from random import choice

def main():
    number = choice((list(range(1, get_level() + 1))))    # get random number y from range 1-x
    while True:    # have user guess y
        try:
            guess = int(input("Guess: "))
            if guess > 0:
                if guess < number:
                    print("Too small!")
                elif guess > number:
                    print("Too large!")
                elif guess == number:
                    print("Just right!")
                    break    # break out of loop if guess is correct 
        except ValueError:
            pass


def get_level():
    while True:
        try:
            level = int(input("Level: "))
            if level > 0:
                return level
        except ValueError:
            pass


main()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4236

Answers (2)

yongzane
yongzane

Reputation: 1

use random.randint()

instead of random.randrange()

Upvotes: 0

Junaid Shafi
Junaid Shafi

Reputation: 36

import sys
then use

sys.exit("Just Right!")

instead of

print("Just Right!")
break

Upvotes: 2

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