Hello, I'm using Python 2.6 to generate switch lists for a model railroad.
I had some help before, possibly from this site but have encountered
another problem. I realise the code could be better written, but learning
Python is a work in progress. The program works much as expected except
when I try to count & store the results of a random pick from a list of
rolling stock. If I try to store 1 result it works fine. If I try to store
more than 1 result I get one or the other, never both. The code is below
(not the whole program)
This works:
for i in range(1):
pos = random.randrange(0,len(rolling_stock_D))
pick = rolling_stock_D[pos]
for item in noDupes:
if item==pick:
break
else: # else for the loop, executed if the loop ran to exhaustion
noDupes.append(pick)
for item in noDupes:
print item
print
if item.find ("SDB") != -1:
SDB_count += 1
if item.find ("DDB") != -1:
DDB_count += 1
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But this doesn't:
for i in range(2):
pos = random.randrange(0,len(rolling_stock_OS))
pick = rolling_stock_OS[pos]
for item in noDupes:
if item==pick:
break
else: # else for the loop, executed if the loop ran to exhaustion
noDupes.append(pick)
for item in noDupes:
print item
print
if item.find ("Flat") != -1:
Flat_count += 1
if item.find ("Gondola") != -1:
Gondola_count += 1
Any help would be much appreciated
thank you
Steve
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