Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-22 Thread John Gordon
In <1737402a-2f4d-440a-abd7-6cc500f67...@googlegroups.com> Dylan Riley writes: > heads = int("1") Why are you taking the int value of a string constant? If you know you want the value 1, why not just use it directly? > flips = 100 > headscount = 0 > tailscount = 0 >

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-22 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 11/21/2015 06:44 PM, Larry Hudson wrote: On 11/20/2015 07:30 PM, Dylan Riley wrote: i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the number of heads and tails. [snip] import random heads = int("1") tails = int("2") flips = 100

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-21 Thread Pavel Volkov
On суббота, 21 ноября 2015 г. 6:30:02 MSK, Dylan Riley wrote: Also some more notes: heads = int("1") tails = int("2") Why use this strange initialization? The usual way: heads = 1 tails = 2 gives the same result. while flips != 0: flips -= 1 There's no need to use while and flips

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-21 Thread Pavel Volkov
On суббота, 21 ноября 2015 г. 6:30:02 MSK, Dylan Riley wrote: i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the number of heads and tails. First, you have a syntax error: if result = heads: should be: if result == heads: Second,

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-21 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 11/20/2015 07:30 PM, Dylan Riley wrote: i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the number of heads and tails. I have done so coming up with this piece of work but it doesnt run can anyone help me out? #This is credited to

anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-20 Thread Dylan Riley
i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the number of heads and tails. I have done so coming up with this piece of work but it doesnt run can anyone help me out? #This is credited to dylan print(" \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ D FLIPS

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Dylan Riley wrote: > I have done so coming up with this piece of work but it doesnt run can anyone > help me out? > Please, please, try to help us out here! What does it mean to "not run"? Does it run and give an exception? Does it run

Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

2015-11-20 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Dylan Riley wrote: > i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a > coin 100 times and then tells you > the number of heads and tails. > > I have done so coming up with this piece of work but it doesnt run can >