[Tutor] while loop

Scott W Dunning scott.w.d at cox.net
Sat Mar 29 06:18:52 CET 2014


On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Scott W Dunning <scott.w.d at cox.net> wrote:

> Hello, I’m working on some practice exercises from my homework and I’m having some issues figuring out what is wanted.  
> 
> We’re working with the while loop and this is what the question states;
> 
> Write a function print_n that prints a string n times using iteration.
> 
> 	"""Print the string `s`, `n` times. 
> 
> 
> This is also in the exercises and I’m not sure what it means and why it’s there.
> 
> assert isinstance(s, str)
> assert isinstance(n, int)
> 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Scott

This is what I have so far but I’m not really sure it’s what the excersise is asking for?

n = 5
def print_n(s, n):
   while n > 0:
       print s * n

print_n("hello", 10)




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