On Apr 6, 4:56 pm, Joaquin Abian <gatoyga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 6, 9:04 pm, ja1lbr3ak <superheroco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to teach myself Python, and so have been simplifying a > > calculator program that I wrote. The original was 77 lines for the > > same functionality. Problem is, I've hit a wall. Can anyone help? > > > loop = input("Enter 1 for the calculator, 2 for the Fibonacci > > sequence, or something else to quit: ") > > while loop < 3 and loop > 0: > > if loop == 1: > > print input("\nPut in an equation: ") > > if loop == 2: > > a, b, n = 1, 1, (input("\nWhat Fibonacci number do you want to > > go to? ")) > > while n > 0: > > print a > > a, b, n = b, a+b, n-1 > > loop = input("\nEnter 1 for the calculator, 2 for the Fibonacci > > sequence, or something else to quit: ") > > You could structure it a bit better but something to start with could > be(it works): > > def calc(n): > print n > > def fibo(n): > a=b=1 > while n > 0: > print a > a, b, n = b, a+b, n-1 > > NOTE = """Enter 1 for the calculator, 2 for the Fibonacci > sequence, or something else to quit: """ > > while True: > > loop = raw_input(NOTE) > > if loop == '1': > forcalc = raw_input("\nPut in an equation: ") > calc(forcalc) > elif loop == '2': > forfibo = raw_input("\nWhat Fibonacci number do you want to go > to? ") > n = int(forfibo) > fibo(n) > else: > break > > Cheers > Joaquin
Actually, when I tried yours the calculator just spits out the input again, which is why I used input instead of raw_input. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list