[Tutor] Flip a coin

[Sayan Chatterjee]

flip_coin = 100

and then after a while

while flip_coin != 100:

It is contradicting.So the while loop is never executed. Just put flip_coin
= 0 and remove
head = ""
tail = ""

They are not necessary.

It should work.

Cheers,
Sayan


On 9 April 2013 17:20, Najam Us Saqib <ausnajm at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This program is killing me, I have been working on it for last 3 hours, I
> have tried my best but can't make it work, please help me out.
>
> The Problem:
>
> Create a program that flips a coin 100 times and than tells you the number
> of tails and heads.
>
> My code:
>
> # Flip a coin
>
> import random
>
> flip_coin = 100
> head = ""
> tail = ""
> n_head = 0
> n_tail = 0
> the_num = (raw_input("Press enter key to flip the coin!"))
>
>
> #raw_input("Please Flip the Coin")
>
> while flip_coin != 100:
>     flip_coin = random.randrange(100) +1
>     if flip_coin <= 50:
>
>      print "head"
>
>     else:
>      print "tail"
>
>     the_num = (raw_input("Press Enter to flip the coin"))
>     n_head += 1
>     n_tail += 1
>
>
>
> print "The total numbers of heads are" ,n_head
> print "The total numbers of tails are" ,n_tail
>
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit, thank you")
>
> Thank you very much, looking forward to hear from you.
>
> Regards,
> Najam.
>
>
>
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