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Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?

From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?
Date 2015-11-20 22:39 -0500
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Dylan Riley <dylan.riley@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a
> coin 100 times and then tells you
> the number of heads and tails.
>
> I have done so coming up with this piece of work but it doesnt run can
> anyone help me out?
>
> #This is credited to dylan
>
> print(" \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ D FLIPS \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\")
> print("\n\nThis is D's coin flipper program. You get 100 flips. \n\t LETS
> SEE HOW LUCKY YOU ARE")
> input("Press enter")
>
> import random
>
> heads = int("1")
> tails = int("2")
> flips = 100
> headscount = 0
> tailscount = 0
>
> while flips != 0:
>     flips -= 1
>
> shouldn't this below be in the while loop?


> result = random.randint(heads, tails)
> if result = heads:
>     headscount += 1
> else:
>     tailscount += 1
>
>
> up to here


> print(headscount, tailscount)
>
> input("press enter to exit")
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>



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anyone tell me why my program will not run? Dylan Riley <dylan.riley@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-20 19:30 -0800
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 22:39 -0500
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 16:50 +1100
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Pavel Volkov <sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> - 2015-11-21 19:57 +0300
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Pavel Volkov <sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> - 2015-11-21 20:15 +0300
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-21 18:44 -0800
    Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-22 13:42 -0800
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-22 16:39 +0000
  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-22 13:09 -0500

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