[Tutor] Loop Issue
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Thu Mar 13 16:42:51 CET 2014
spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> On 03/13/2014 12:40 AM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>> The context is the beginning of the thread:
>>
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-March/100543.html
>>
>> with the loop:
>>
>>
>> ###
>> while health != 0:
>> ...
>> ###
>
> The point, and reason why this loop was (potentially) infinite, is that the
> condition was false. Should be <0 instead ('cause health points are not removed
> one by one, so that a health value of 0 exactly can be jumped over).
>
Well unless I misremember, the value of health goes down. So
you'd want
while health > 0
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DaveA
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