Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread bob gailer
Just for the heck of it: heads = sum(random.randrange(2) for i in range(100)) -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tuto

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Gauld
"Stephanie Dawn Samson" wrote thought I should write the rewritten code I got that others helped me get to By applying a couple of other ideas that have been suggested you get something shorter and arguably slightly clearer: # Coin Flips # The program flips a coin 100 times and then # tell

Re: [Tutor] program hangs in while loop using wx.yield

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Gauld
"Patty" wrote then I went through Alan Gauld's tutorial which also helped. Glad to hear it :-) If I just can't figure out how to do this with Tkinter and the Python I can send some basic code if that would help... Imaging Library, is 'wxPython' the additional software I would want to

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Stephanie Dawn Samson
Greetings, As a thread starter, I thought I should write the rewritten code I got that others helped me get to, since this thread is still going on. # Coin Flips# The program flips a coin 100 times and then# tells you the number of heads and tailsimport random print "\a"print "\tWelcome to 'Coi

Re: [Tutor] program hangs in while loop using wx.yield

2010-11-16 Thread Walter Prins
Not wanting to hijack Terry's conversation, but for what it's worth: On 16 November 2010 18:08, Patty wrote: > If I just can't figure out how to do this with Tkinter and the Python > Imaging Library, is 'wxPython' the additional software I would want to > install and try with? Is its purpose to

[Tutor] wxPython, Tkinter (was: program hangs in while loop using wx.yield

2010-11-16 Thread Terry Carroll
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Patty wrote: Hi Terry - I am an alumni of UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz) and live really close so I can request books throughout the UC system just like you describe and there is no limit - or maybe an extremely high limit - to the number of books I can check

Re: [Tutor] program hangs in while loop using wx.yield

2010-11-16 Thread Patty
Hi Terry - I am an alumni of UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz) and live really close so I can request books throughout the UC system just like you describe and there is no limit - or maybe an extremely high limit - to the number of books I can check out from McHenry Library. It is so

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Nithya Nisha
Thankyou..!!! Regards, Nithya On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Luke Pettit wrote: > Arrr thats better Nithya it works fine now. I had it working fine before > it was just coming up with that strange result of 73 and 100 > when I copied the code into wing to check it out in order to understand

Re: [Tutor] new turtle module

2010-11-16 Thread roberto
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "roberto" wrote > >> is it correct to overwrite the turtle.py and turtle.pyc files > > I'd overwrite the .py file but get Python to generate a new .pyc for you > just to ensure compatibility. > > just type import turtle at the >>> prompt. > t

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Luke Pettit
Arrr thats better Nithya it works fine now. I had it working fine before it was just coming up with that strange result of 73 and 100 when I copied the code into wing to check it out in order to understand it. Wing picked up the spacing and I had already corrected that Dave as I was simply looking

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Nithya Nisha
Hi there, This is the Code. Please check it.It is working fine. >>>import random >>>headsCount = 0 >>>tailsCount = 0 >>>count = 1 >>> >>>while count <= 100: >>> coin = random.randrange(2) >>> if coin == 0: >>> headsCount += 1 >>> else: >>> tailsCount += 1