[Tutor] new user question about while loops

[Nick Eberle]

print "This is a coin flip game"
 
print "\n100 flips will be made and it will show the amount of times heads or tails came up"
 
import random

#assigning variables to track the amount of times heads or tails comes up
heads=0
tails=1
 
flip=100
while flip < 100:
    flip -= 1
    random.randrange(2)
    if flip < 100:
        break
 
print "\nThe amount of times tails came up was" , tails , "The amount of times heads came up was" , heads
 
raw_input()


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From: bob [mailto:bgailer at alum.rpi.edu]
Sent: Tue 10/25/2005 10:58 PM
To: Nick Eberle; tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] new user question about while loops


At 10:53 PM 10/25/2005, Nick Eberle wrote:


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	Hello all,
	 
	I had a new question about python. I am pretty much in tutorial learning stages, but attempting to create sample programs not in my book to learn how to construct scripts.
	 
	I understand the format of while loops, but is it possible to use the random.randrange function in them?
	 
	My goal, create a program that flips a coin 100 times, at the end it says the number of times it flipped heads and flipped tails.
	 
	My dilemia, how do I get this to work with a while loop? I tried intially assigning
	 
	heads=0
	tails=1
	 
	then I figured I could just do a while loop and then use the random function each time. At the end it could count the number of times the random generated a 0 or a 1.
	 
	However I can't seem to construct it in a way that makes or works. 


Show us your code, as flawed as it might be. Then we can advise you.
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