from random import choice items = ('soup', 'corn', 'milk', 'bread', 'eggs') item = choice(items) positiveSayings = ('Stay in school!', "Don't do drugs!") guessesLeft = 3 print 'Mr. T says guess the food item in', guessesLeft, 'guesses.' print 'Items:', items while guessesLeft > 0: guessesLeft -= 1 guess = raw_input('Your guess? ') if guess == item: print "That's right. " + choice(positiveSayings) break # Exit the while loop if guessesLeft: print 'Wrong.', guessesLeft, 'guesses left.' if guess != item: print "I pity the fool!"