Python number guessing game

I'm a PHP Developer. I'm trying to learn Python. So I tried to create a simple game, a Number Guesser.

I tried to comment out as much as possible without making super obvious comments.

I also made the attempts message color to be red.

Here's my code.

# 1. Print a message about the game
# 2. Tell the user that the random number is between some numbers
# 3. Run a while loop to continue the input, break the loop when the guess is right.
# 4`. When the user guessed the number, tell them that they're right.

import random

# Simple message to the user.
print "Welcome to the Number Guesser game."
print "I have a number in my mind that's between 1-20."

number = random.randint(0, 20)

# Guess the number
# > 
prompt = "> "

# Start out as 5 and then decrement it on wrong guesses.
attempts = 5

while attempts > 0:
    print "What's your guess? "

    # Simple validation
    try:
        guess = int(raw_input(prompt))
    except ValueError: 
        print "Only numbers are allowed. \n"
        break

    if guess > number:
        print "Go lower."
    elif guess < number:
        print "Go higher."
    else:
        print "Nice! You've guessed it right. The number was %d." % number
        print "And you got it with %d attempts!" % attempts
        # Exit.
        break

    # Decrement the attempts each time the guess isn't right.
    attempts -= 1

    if attempts == 0:
        print "You didn't guessed it, the number was %d. You lose." % number
        # Exit the script.
        break
    # Print with the color red.
    print("\033[91m You have {} guesses left. \033[00m").format(attempts)

number = random.randint(0, 20)

You just told the user that the number is between one and twenty, but you use random.randint(0, 20). What if the result was 0? One disgruntled player. You should be using number = random.randint(1, 20).

prompt = "> "

You aren't hard-coding the value. That's very good. Since it is a constant, however, you should use ALLCAPS.

attempts = 5
while attempts > 0:

You are starting out at the high point and decrementing until you get to zero. That isn't really the number of attempts. That is how many attempts are left. I would define a constant for the number of attempts allowed, define attempts as 0, and have the while make sure that attempts is lower than that number. This becomes especially useful when printing how many attempts it took. As it is, your program displays the wrong number: the number of attempts that were left.

try:
    guess = int(raw_input(prompt))
except ValueError: 
    print "Only numbers are allowed. \n"
    break

It's good that you try to validate the input, but you should use continue instead of break. One invalid input shouldn't end the program.

print "Nice! You've guessed it right. The number was %d." % number

Using % for a format string isn't officialy deprecated, but it is recommended to use .format().

What if the user wants to play again? You make him re-run the script. I would use a while loop and a function:

import random

PROMPT = "> "
GUESSES = 5

def guess_number(start=1, end=20):
    print "I have a number in my mind that's between {}-{}.".format(start, end)
    number = random.randint(start, end)
    attempts = 0
    while attempts  number:
            print "Go lower."
        elif guess < number:
            print "Go higher."
        else:
            print "Nice! You've guessed it right. The number was {:d}.".format(number)
            print "And you got it with {:d} attempts!".format(attempts + 1)
            break

        # Increment the attempts each time the guess isn't right.
        attempts += 1

        if attempts == GUESSES:
            print "You didn't guess it; the number was {:d}. You lose.".format(number)
            break
        # Print with the color red.
        print("\033[91m You have {} guesses left. \033[00m").format(attempts)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "Welcome to the Number Guesser game."

    again = True
    while again:
        print "I have a number in my mind that's between 1-20."
        guess_number()
        play_again = raw_input("Would you like to play again? ")
        while play_again.lower() not in "yn":
            play_again = raw_input("Invalid input. [y/n] ")
        again = (play_again.lower() == "y")

StackExchange Code Review Q#124372, answer score: 3