[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i was wondering if anyone could point me to some good reading about the > for and while loops > > i am trying to write some programs > "Exercise 1 > > Write a program that continually reads in numbers from the user and > adds them together until the sum reaches 100. Write another program > that reads 100 numbers from the user and prints out the sum. " > > but im not quite grasping those functions.. > > please bear im mind i am an extreme newbie at this...thanks in advance
while loops test a condition every time through the loop and keep running as long as it's true. for loops run through a finite (usually) set of things and do something "for" each thing. Check out one or more python tutorials such as http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html (and especially this part http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html), a quick search an google can turn up more. (Hint: you're probably gonna want to use a while loop for the first program and a for loop for the second.) Hope that helps, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
