anyone tell me why my program will not run?

[John Gordon]

In <1737402a-2f4d-440a-abd7-6cc500f673e1 at googlegroups.com> Dylan Riley <dylan.riley at hotmail.com> writes:

> heads = int("1")

Why are you taking the int value of a string constant?  If you know you
want the value 1, why not just use it directly?

> flips = 100
> headscount = 0
> tailscount = 0

> while flips != 0:
>     flips -= 1

This loop has no other effect than to set flips to zero, so why not just
set flips to zero in the first place?

> result = random.randint(heads, tails)
> if result = heads:
>     headscount += 1
> else:
>     tailscount += 1

Perhaps you meant to have this piece of code indented under the while
loop above?

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