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

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From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject Re: anyone tell me why my program will not run?
Date Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:39:08 +0000 (UTC)
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In <1737402a-2f4d-440a-abd7-6cc500f673e1@googlegroups.com> Dylan Riley <dylan.riley@hotmail.com> writes:

> heads = int("1")

Why are you taking the int value of a string constant?  If you know you
want the value 1, why not just use it directly?

> flips = 100
> headscount = 0
> tailscount = 0

> while flips != 0:
>     flips -= 1

This loop has no other effect than to set flips to zero, so why not just
set flips to zero in the first place?

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

Perhaps you meant to have this piece of code indented under the while
loop above?

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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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