my first real program blows up, can someone tell me why?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jerry F. Davis <jfdecd at execpc.com> wrote:
> I read the tutorial and tried a variation on what i saw there. and it
> blew up, with a integer overflow. can someone tell me why?

a better problem description would be "why doesn't
the loop in the 'fib' function stop?"

the reason is that "b" is a number, and "n" is a string
(for more info on comparisions, see chapter 5.9 in the
language reference)

adding a conversion will fix this:

    x = int(sys.argv[1])

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