[Tutor] while loop

[Dave Angel]

 Scott Dunning <swdunning at me.com> Wrote in message:
> 
> On Mar 31, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>> 
>> Do you know how to define and initialize a second local variable? 
>> Create one called i,  with a value zero.
>> 
>> You test expression will not have a literal,  but compare the two
>> locals. And the statement that increments will change i,  not
>> n.
> 
> So like this?  
> def print_n(s,n):
>     i = 0
>     while i < n:
>         print s,
>         i += 1
> 
> print_n('a',3)
> 
> So this is basically making i bigger by +1 every time the while loop passes until it passes n, then it becomes false right?  
> 
> Also, with this exercise it’s using a doctest so I don’t actually call the function so I can’t figure out a way to make the string’s print on separate lines without changing the doctest code?  
> 

The trailing comma on the print statement is suppressing the
 newline that's printed by default. If you want them on separate
 lines, get rid of the comma.



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DaveA