Paulo Repreza wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm having problems with a little script that I'm trying to finish, I > don't know if I'm in the right track but I know somebody is going to > help me. > > The script: > > # Import modules random for function randint > > import random > > # Generating a constant. > > var = 65 > > # Generating a random number. > ranum = random.randint(1,100) > > #Creating while loop. Stops until var == ranum > while var != ranum: > if var == ranum:
The "if" condition can never be true, since if it were then the loop would have just terminated before starting this iteration! > print var, 'equals to:', ranum > else: > print var, 'does not equal to:', ranum > Shouldn't there be something here to set ranum to a new value? Otherwise the same value will be there the next time around ... > ########## End of Script ########### > > > What I'm trying to do is to print the new value that ranum generates if > the condition is not met. So far if you run the script it prints the > same value over and over again, making in an infinite loop. What can I > do in order to print out the new value generated every time the > condition is not met? > > Thanks! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
