The sum of ten numbers inserted from the user

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Feb 9 14:18:32 EST 2019


On 2/9/2019 4:23 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 08.02.19 um 09:58 schrieb ^Bart:
>> A colleague did:
>>
>> total=0
>> for n in range(10):
>>
>>      n= int(input("Enter a number: "))
> 
> Here, you are reusing "n" for two different things:
> 1. The loop index, indicating which number you ask for
> 2. The number entered from the user
> 
> This is avery bad thing.

It is not as bad as "int = int(input('Number? '))"




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Terry Jan Reedy





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