On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
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> A good programming exercise will show an example input and the expected
> output, to give an unambiguous test case. Does the homework have that?
This is what the exercise has as examples…
"""Print the string `s`, `n` times.
Parameter
On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
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> What are you uncertain about, assert or isinstance? Such
> statements are frequently used to make sure the function
> arguments are of the right type.
I’m not sure exactly what it’s doing. I guess I need to read up on it again.
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On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
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> So did your code print the string 10 times? When asking for help,
> it's useful to show what you tried, and what was expected, and
> what actually resulted.
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> You use * to replicate the string, but that wasn't what the
> assignment aske
On 30/03/14 02:36, Scott Dunning wrote:
Your while loop doesn't quit after 10 times, it keeps going. Can
you figure out why?
This works without a break.
> Is this more a long the line of what the excercise was
> looking for you think?
Yes.
while n <= 10:
print s
n =
Scott Dunning Wrote in message:
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> On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
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>> So did your code print the string 10 times? When asking for help,
>> it's useful to show what you tried, and what was expected, and
>> what actually resulted.
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>> You use * to replicate the string,
