[Tutor] loops

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 12:05:15 CET 2009


On 12/8/2009 9:39 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Richard Hultgren wrote:
>> a = 0
>> b = 1
>> count = 0
>> max_count = 20
>> while count < max_count:
>> count = count + 1
>> # we need to keep track of a since we change it
>> old_a = a # especially here
>> old_b = b
>> a = old_b
>> b = old_a + old_b
>> # Notice that the , at the end of a print statement keeps it
>> # from switching to a new line
>> print old_a,
>>
>>
>>
> What's your question or comment?
>
> If you're just looking for a challenge, I'll point out that the same
> result could be gotten with 4 lines of Python.

you lose, 1 line is all it takes for me:
print "0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181"



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