After incrementing for a little while, if the condition i == digit is not
met for the current character, count is reset by the else: branch. Your
count variable must feel frustrated like a dog which keeps being yanked
back by a cord of length 0 when it tries to get free.
Trung Doan
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Brandon Merritt <merrit...@gmail.com>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
>
> print count
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
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