Eddie wrote:
I'm trying to write a simple factorial program and am unsure at what is
wrong with it. Why Can't I go *factorial = factorial * number* where
factorial and number are both integers?
#Factorial program
print "Factorial finder"
number = input("Please enter a non-negative integer: "
for number in range(number, 1)
factorial = (factorial * number)
print "Factorial:", factorial
Thanks Eddie [?]
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Six problems in that initial code. Two of them were identified
already. But I'll repeat them to put them in one place.
1) Need closing parenthesis on the input function call
2) Need to give an initial value to factorial, sometime before the for loop
3) Must not indent the for loop statement; it should line up with the
input statement
4) parameters to range don't make sense
5) Need to end the for loop with a colon
6) Need to indent the body of the for loop
print "Factorial finder"
number = input("Please enter a non-negative integer: ")
factorial = 1
for number in range(1, number+1):
factorial = (factorial * number)
print "Factorial:", factorial
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