Begginers Guide - Exrcise. Help me, plz!

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 16-Mar-2002 Jeffrey-man wrote:
> Hello, everybody!
> I'm a newbie and I'm just learning. I know, it's a stupid question, but I
> want to resolve it.
> Learning the Begginers Guide, I found an exercise. It tells me:
> "Write a program that continually reads in numbers from the user and adds
> them together until the sum reaches 100."
> Can anybody help me?
> 
>  -----
> 
> sum_stop = 100
> num = input("Please enter the number: ")
> 
> for sum in range(num+num,sum_stop):
>     print "Now the sum is", num+num
>     sleep(1)
> 
> print "The sum is >/= 100!"
> 
>  -----
> 
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
> 
> 

you misread the specification.

You are to ask the user "give me a number", add that number to the previous one
(hint: use zero the first time), then check if the new sum is less than the
stopping point (100 in this case).  If the stopping point is reached, cease
asking for a number.

Does that help?