On Oct 22, 5:22 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:17:56 -0400, Shawn Minisall wrote:
> > #Intro
> > print "*********************************************"
> > print "WELCOME TO THE POPULATION GROWTH CALCULATOR"
> > print "*********************************************"
>
> > print "This program will predict the size of a population of organisms."
> > print
> > print
> > organisms=input("Please enter the starting number of organisms: ")
>
> > increase=input("Please enter the average daily population increase
> > as a percentage (20% = .20): ")
>
> > days=input("Please enter the number of days that they will multiply: ")
>
> > print " Day Population"
> > print "----------------------------------------------------------"
>
> > for p in range (days):
>
> > population = organisms * population * increase
>
> > print days,
>
> > print "\t\t\t\t",population
>
> > I'm having problems with my for loop here to calculate estimated
> > population output to a table. Instead of knowing how much I want to
> > loop it, the loop index is going to be whatever number of days the user
> > enters. When I run my program, it asks the 3 questions above but then
> > just dead stops at a prompt which leads me to believe there's something
> > wrong with my loop.
>
> It should not run at all as it is indented inconsistently. If that
> problem is corrected it will stop with a `NameError` because you try to
> read `population` before anything was assigned to it.
>
> Ciao,
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Also, I would guess that you want to print p, not days.
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