I am learning python. I wanted to test my ability by making a program to keep track of the flip of a coin to find how many consecutive times it came up heads and tails.
Just want some criticism on what I have done. import random Hn = {} Tn = {} for i in range (0,31): vars()["Hn"+str(i)] = 0 for i in range (0,31): vars()["Tn"+str(i)] = 0 total_Heads = 0 total_tails= 0 tails_number = 0 Heads_number = 0 tries = 0 while tries < 10000: tries += 1 coin = random.randint(1, 2) # Flip coin if coin == 1: Heads_number += 1 # Incroment Heads count total_Heads += 1 if tails_number > 0 : vars()["Tn"+ str(tails_number)] += 1 # Incroment tails consecutive count tails_number = 0 if coin == 2: tails_number += 1 # Incroment Talies count total_tails += 1 if Heads_number > 0: vars()["Hn"+ str(Heads_number)] += 1 # Incroment Heads consecutive count Heads_number = 0 print (tries) print (total_tails, total_Heads) for i in range (30): print ('%-15s %-15s' %(("Tn"+str(i)+" "+str(eval("Tn"+str(i)))),("Hn"+str(i)+" "+str(eval("Hn"+str(i)))))) print out 100000000 50000259 49999741 Tn0 0 Hn0 0 Tn1 12497339 Hn1 12500186 Tn2 6257043 Hn2 6251565 Tn3 3120686 Hn3 3127257 Tn4 1563418 Hn4 1561175 Tn5 781938 Hn5 779381 Tn6 390943 Hn6 389768 Tn7 195569 Hn7 196513 Tn8 97091 Hn8 97858 Tn9 48717 Hn9 48745 Tn10 24493 Hn10 24429 Tn11 11966 Hn11 12237 Tn12 6070 Hn12 6062 Tn13 3021 Hn13 3039 Tn14 1540 Hn14 1556 Tn15 679 Hn15 726 Tn16 403 Hn16 389 Tn17 179 Hn17 206 Tn18 94 Hn18 105 Tn19 49 Hn19 45 Tn20 26 Hn20 24 Tn21 16 Hn21 13 Tn22 5 Hn22 2 Tn23 1 Hn23 3 Tn24 2 Hn24 3 Tn25 1 Hn25 2 Tn26 0 Hn26 0 Tn27 0 Hn27 0 Tn28 0 Hn28 0 Tn29 0 Hn29 0 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor