[Tutor] Why won't it enter the quiz?

[Nathan Pinno]

cq is for "current question" and q is for "question"
therefore cq >= q should be correct most of the time
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Yoo" <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Nathan Pinno" <falcon3166 at hotmail.com>
Cc: <Tutor at python.org>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Why won't it enter the quiz?


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>> I've got this program I've written that should give an addition quiz,
>> except it never enters the quiz. How do I make it enter the quiz?
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> Hi Nathan,
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> Let's look at a small snippet of the code.
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>>     q = random.choice(range(15,31))
>>     cq = 1
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> What does 'q' stand for?  What does 'cq' stand for?
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> These aren't irrelevant questions, because you were doing fine with your
> other variable names right up till then.
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> Your program isn't going to run any slower if you use longer variable
> names.  *grin*  Until you get more experience, try using descriptive
> names.  For myself, doing so usually jolts me into trying to make sure the
> code reads well.
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> It also matters because I don't yet understand what the while's condition
> is checking for:
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>>     while cq >= q:
>            ^^^^^^^
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> Can you explain what this is trying to check?  I suspect that this
> expression is "weird" in the sense that it doesn't check what you're
> trying to check.
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> Best of wishes to you!
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