flip_coin = 100
and then after a while
while flip_coin != 100:
It is contradicting.So the while loop is never executed. Just put flip_coin
= 0 and remove
head = ""
tail = ""
They are not necessary.
It should work.
Cheers,
Sayan
On 9 April 2013 17:20, Najam Us Saqib <ausn...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This program is killing me, I have been working on it for last 3 hours, I
> have tried my best but can't make it work, please help me out.
>
> The Problem:
>
> Create a program that flips a coin 100 times and than tells you the number
> of tails and heads.
>
> My code:
>
> # Flip a coin
>
> import random
>
> flip_coin = 100
> head = ""
> tail = ""
> n_head = 0
> n_tail = 0
> the_num = (raw_input("Press enter key to flip the coin!"))
>
>
> #raw_input("Please Flip the Coin")
>
> while flip_coin != 100:
> flip_coin = random.randrange(100) +1
> if flip_coin <= 50:
>
> print "head"
>
> else:
> print "tail"
>
> the_num = (raw_input("Press Enter to flip the coin"))
> n_head += 1
> n_tail += 1
>
>
>
> print "The total numbers of heads are" ,n_head
> print "The total numbers of tails are" ,n_tail
>
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit, thank you")
>
> Thank you very much, looking forward to hear from you.
>
> Regards,
> Najam.
>
>
>
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