new to python, help please !!

[John Gordon]

In <93aef8e5-3d6f-41f4-a625-cd3c2007686e at googlegroups.com> Anas Belemlih <anas.belemlih at gmail.com> writes:

> i=0
> s1=line1[i]
> s2=line2[i]
> count = 0

> if number1 != number2:
> 	print " hash table not the same size"
> else:
>     while count < number1:
> 	if s1 == s2:
> 		print " character", line1[i]," matchs"
> 		i=i+1
> 	count=count+1
> 	else
> 		print "Hash values corrupt"

It looks like you're expecting s1 and s2 to automatically update their
values when i gets incremented, but it doesn't work like that.  When you
increment i, you also have to reassign s1 and s2.

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