FAQ: Learn Python - Battleship - Play It, Sam

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2 posts were split to a new topic: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘SCT’"

2 posts were split to a new topic: Program will only print “that’s not even in the ocean” no matter what

12 posts were split to a new topic: What is wrong with my indentation?

3 posts were split to a new topic: Why do I get an indentation error with correct code?

4 posts were split to a new topic: Where are the indentation errors in my code?

3 posts were split to a new topic: Is there something wrong with my print statement?

This is the problem, it ended abruptly so I could not give the last 4th guess. Some memory issues probably?

Guess Row: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “python”, line 30, in
ExecTimeoutException: Program took too long to terminate.

Can I know please why Im getting error message as I have already replaced my code with the solution.

secondly the replaced code is not the correct answer then why it is giving the option for “next”.

problems with raw_input(), this is a re-occurring problem with codecademy

just replace the raw_inputs with hard-coded numbers:

guess_row = 3
guess_col = 3
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