[Tutor] Is this overkill?

[catherine curley]

Bradly

I'm new to python also.  Have you come across any good exercises that a
beginner try.

I've spend some time going throught the many available turorials, but find
it hard to get good exercises to try out what you learn.

Catherine


On 1/21/06, Bradly McConnell <bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings all:
>
> I'm new to Python, and have come across and exercise that basically
> counts to 100.  The idea is to accept user input for an initial
> number, and then let the user add additional numbers.  I wanted to
> give feedback if a number selected would bring the total above 100, so
> the user would select a lower number.  It looks like I have it
> working, but it doesn't seem very efficient.  I would like any hints,
> help, or comments that you can provide.  Below is what I have so far.
>
> number = input("Please enter a number: ")
> while number != 100:
>    additional_number = input("Please enter an additional number: ")
>    if additional_number + number > 100:
>        lower_number = input("please enter a lower number: ")
>        if lower_number + number > 100:
>            lower_number = input("Lower!")
>        else:
>            number = lower_number + number
>    elif additional_number + number < 100:
>        number = additional_number + number
>    else:
>        continue
>
> print "Done", number
>
>
> Brad
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