On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:59:13 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Milter Skyler <> wrote: > > > I made an array to check if the random integer already exists and then I > > send it to the else statement at which point I want to decrease x by 1 so > > that it doesn't count as one of the loops. In other languages this works... > > > > A Python 'for' loop doesn't behave like that; you can't just edit the > > loop counter. But take a step back: what are you actually trying to > > accomplish? As I see it, you're trying to pick ten unique random > > values in the range 1-12 inclusive. Try this: > > > > random.sample(range(1,13),10) # note that range() stops *before* its second > arg > > > > That'll give you a list of those integers, and it's a lot safer and > > more reliable than the try-fail-retry method. Your loop can become: > > > > for decimal_value in random.sample(range(1,13),10): > > egg = 'A%d.png' % (decimal_value) > > egg = wait(egg) > > click(egg.getCenter().offset(random.randint(-10,10), > > random.randint(-10,10))) > > > > By the way, this line simply won't work: > > > > x-1 = x > > > > I think you mean: > > > > x = x-1 > > > > But I strongly suggest you copy and paste directly rather than retype; > > it's less error-prone. > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > ChrisA
Thanks! That worked perfect, I was trying to figure that out but instead I just went down the hard route I went down. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
