On 19/12/12 05:40, Brandon Merritt wrote:
the string class, but I was just trying to do it the syntactical way to prove myself that I know the very basics.
Which is not a bad thing.
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
you reset count to zero everytime round the loop. You need to move this outside the loop. HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor