On Mar 31, 8:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wrote a simple algorithm and it keeps getting stuck in a loop. I > guess I'm just to tired to figure it out: > > compcount=[5,4,2,2] > suitrank=[0,0,0,0] > > trump=2 > l,lt=0,0 > while l<4: > while lt<4: > if l==trump: > l+=1 > if l>3: > break > if lt==trump: > lt+=1 > if compcount[l]<compcount[lt]: > suitrank[l]+=1 > lt+=1 > l+=1 > > In case you're wondering, the point is to rank suits from highest to > lowest based on how few cards each suit has. I hope that's enough > information.
Inside the inner loop, lt never changes if lt != trump, so you get an infinite loop the first time when lt == 0. I think you may have misindented the last two lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
