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

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On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:15:05 +0300, Pavel Volkov
<sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> declaimed the following:

>On ???????, 21 ?????? 2015 ?. 6:30:02 MSK, Dylan Riley wrote:
>
>Also some more notes:
>
>> heads = int("1")
>> tails = int("2")
>
>Why use this strange initialization? The usual way:
>heads = 1
>tails = 2
>gives the same result.
>
>> while flips != 0:
>>     flips -= 1
>
>There's no need to use while and flips variable:
>
>for _ in range(100):
>    if random.randint(heads, tails) == heads:
>        headscount += 1
>    else:
>        tailscount += 1
>  
>Also, it's good to put import at the beginning.

	There's also no need for both headscount and tailscount unless the code
allows for a "coin" to land on its edge.

100 - headscount => tailscount

>>> TRIALS = 100
>>> import random
>>> run = [random.choice([0, 1]) for _ in range(TRIALS)]
>>> print "Heads: %s, Tails: %s" % (sum(run), TRIALS - sum(run))
Heads: 51, Tails: 49
>>> 
>>> TRIALS = 200
>>> run = [random.choice([0, 1]) for _ in range(TRIALS)]
>>> print "Heads: %s, Tails: %s" % (sum(run), TRIALS - sum(run))
Heads: 112, Tails: 88
>>> 
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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
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  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? Pavel Volkov <sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> - 2015-11-21 20:15 +0300
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  Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-22 16:39 +0000
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