[Tutor] Random Number Game: Returns always the same number - why?

[Rafael Knuth]

Your variable assignment for Random_Number is outside of your while
loop. Therefore its value never changes. Put it inside the while loop
just before the print statement and I think you will get what you

That was it! Thank you, you made my day, Bob :-)


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:37 PM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Rafael Knuth <rafael.knuth at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wrote a simple program, and I was expecting that I would get 100
different random numbers. Instead, I am getting 100 times exactly the same
random number. Can anyone advise how I should alter my program?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Rafael
> > PS. I am using Python 3.3.0
> >
> > print ("""
> >
> > This game will return 100 random numbers between 1 and 100.
> >
> > """)
> >
> > import random
> >
> > Count = 0
> >
> > Random_Number = random.randint(1, 100)
> >
> > while Count <= 100:
> >     print (Random_Number)
> >
> >     Count = Count + 1
> >
> Your variable assignment for Random_Number is outside of your while
> loop. Therefore its value never changes. Put it inside the while loop
> just before the print statement and I think you will get what you
> wanted.
>
> HTH,
> boB
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