[Tutor] Exercise in writing a python function

[Kermit Rose]

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:04:27 +1200
From: "John Fouhy" <john at fouhy.net>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Exercise in writing a python function.
To: "Tutor mailing list" <tutor at python.org>
 
 
Hi Kermit,
 
Your basic data structure is a list (actually, several related lists),
which you work your way through.  So I would start off with a for
loop:
 
    for k in range(len(mult)):
 
Then, in the body of the loop, your basic logic is:
 
    Add 1 to mult[k].
    If mult[k] is not too big, exit.
    Otherwise, ...
 
Hmm, actually, I'm not sure I do understand.  Does mpylist ever
change?  How is mult related to zlim?
 
--
John.
 
*****
 
Thank you.
 
I confused things by my mistake in the specifications.
 
The criterion for exiting the outer loop is that
 
mpylist[0][1] * mult[0] + mpylist[1][1] * mult[1] + mpylist[2][1] * mult[2]
+ . . . 
 
be > zlim.