Thanks for all the help and examples. As I mentioned, I'm trying to
teach myself and starting with the basics (if, elif, else, while, for,
raw_input, int are about all I know so far and don't know that well
yet) Some of the example posted are still beyond my understanding but
it's good to see oth
RJ:
>import random
>flip = random.randrange(2)
>heads = 0
>tails = 0
>count = 0
>while count < 100:
> if flip == 0:
> heads += 1
> else:
> tails += 1
> count += 1
Since flip isn't changed in the loop, this is going to report 100 heads or
100 tails, dep
On 2006-06-02 19:25:28 -0400, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Thanks for the reply John. I seem to be getting all the same problems
> with your code that I had with mine so it may be an issue with Python
> on this computer though I haven't had one prior to now. I'm running it
> on OSX T
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:41:53 -0400, RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to teach myself Python (probably running into the old dog
>new tricks issue) and I'm trying to start with the very basics to get a
>handle on them.
>
> I'm trying to write code to get the computer to flip a coin 100
Hello
> Here's the code I wrote:
>
> import random
>
> flip = random.randrange(2)
> heads = 0
> tails = 0
> count = 0
>
> while count < 100:
>
> if flip == 0:
flip never changes again
it's not reassigned in the while loop
> heads += 1
>
> else:
> tails += 1
>
On 3/06/2006 8:41 AM, RJ wrote:
> I'm trying to teach myself Python (probably running into the old dog
> new tricks issue) and I'm trying to start with the very basics to get a
> handle on them.
>
> I'm trying to write code to get the computer to flip a coin 100 times
> and give me the output
