On 12/19/2012 12:40 AM, Brandon Merritt wrote:
I feel silly, but I'm having the darndest time trying to figure out
why this for counter won't work. I know that there is the count method
for the string class, but I was just trying to do it the syntactical
way to prove myself that I know the very basics. As of right now, my
script is just returning 1 or 0, even if I very clearly make sure that
I specify at least 4 instances of the digit in my number string:
number = raw_input('Enter a 7-unit number: ')
digit = raw_input('Enter a single digit: ')
for i in number:
count = 0
if i == digit:
count += 1
else:
count = 0
Why do you have the else: clause?
You can also do:
count = sum(i==digit for i in number)
I think this is very clear and short..
-m
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