Porting an algorithm in C to Python

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Aug 26 20:09:57 EDT 2002


Raphael Ribeiro wrote:

> I couldn't port this , can someone tell me how this code would be if
> it was implemented in python? Any help would be appreciated..
> 
> int main()
> {
>   int teste=1, n;
>   while (scanf("%d", &n) == 1 && n != -1)
>     printf("Teste %d\n%d\n\n", teste++, ((1 << n)+1)*((1 << n)+1));
>   return 0;
> }

Something like (untested):

	test = 0
	while 1:
	    line = sys.stdin.readline()
	    if not line:
	        break
	    line = line[:-1]
	    n = int(line) # one number per line
	    if n == -1:
	        break
	    print "Test %d" % test
	    test += 1
	    print ((1 << n) + 1)**2
	    print
	

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