Re: [Tutor] While loop counter

2008-07-07 Thread David
Thank you John & Allen, See the loops section of my tutorial for more about for and while loops. Yes, great tutorial, just getting it to sink in, now thats the problem :) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Tutor] While loop counter

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi, I am trying to get a while loop that will execute 5 time then stop. Copngratulations, you have succeeded. Unfortunately nothing happens inside your loop. I suspect you actually want to execute some code 5 times? #counter = 0 #while counter < 5 : #cou

Re: [Tutor] While loop counter

2008-07-07 Thread John Fouhy
On 08/07/2008, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to get a while loop that will execute 5 time then stop. Hi David, The standard pattern is like this: i = 0 while i < 5: # the stuff you want to do goes here i = i + 1 Note that if you know exactly how many times you will

[Tutor] While loop counter

2008-07-07 Thread David
Hi, I am trying to get a while loop that will execute 5 time then stop. #!/usr/bin/python # Filename myfirstclass.py # # A Little digital clock from time_class import Time import sys import time mytime = Time() print "Can you tell me the time (24h)?" hour = input("Give the hour: ") minute = in