[Tutor] I'm new to Python too

[D Rizdek]

Arthur C.

I'm new to Python too and signed up to be able to post email questions, so
I get email questions.  I probably deleted one of your earlier questions
and all I have is the rsp from Alan.

I copied your program and got it to work run...ie no error messages...but
it just loops continually.

How did you envision r being updated within the while loop?  It is
initialized at the beginning in the r=random stmt, but not in the while
loop.  I assume you want to keep checking to see when a 6 is "rolled" and
use how long it took...how many loops to calculate some sort of
probability, right?  I inserted an r=random.randint(1,6) so it keeps
generating new "rolls" of a die and checks if it is a 6 each time.

Why do you think P would ever actually == .306?  That is the only way it
will break out of the while loop.  Maybe that is why it just keeps
looping...it is almost certain it will run for a long time before it
happens to produce exactly .306.  And so what if it did?

How does the program keep track of P from one loop to the next?  Wouldn't
you need to do something like that then use that to estimate some sort of
probability?

Dan

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