[Tutor] Beginner - explaining 'Flip a coin' bug

[Marc Eymard]

Hello there,

I want to emulate a coin flip and count how many heads and tails when flipping it a hundred times.

I first coded coinflip_WRONG.py with "count_flips += 1" statement within the if/else block.
When running it, either returned values are wrong or the script seems to enter in an infinite loop showing no return values at all.

coinflip.py is a corrected version I worked out myself. I moved "count_flips+= 1" out of if/else block and inserted it before if/else.

However, I still don't understand the bug since, in my understanding, both files are incrementing variable count_flips each time until the loop becomes false.

Can somebody explain the reason of the bug.
Cheers,

Marc
 		 	   		  
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