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
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 of how many times heads and tails. After
