[Tutor] modification

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dutch wrote:

> going through 'Core python programming' and modified an example to see
> what would happen.  Well, errors happen.
>
> I wanted it to ask me for a number then loop that many time and finally
> report to me what my number was.  This is what I typed that made the
> erros:
>
> num = raw_input ('What shall I count to? ')
> counter = 0
> while counter <= num:
>     print 'loop #%d' %(counter)
>     counter = counter + 1
> print 'Your number was: %d', %num
>
>
> -Dutch

It seems that you have neglected to tell us:

1) What error you're getting, and
2) What version of Python you're using

When I run this under Python 1.5.2 it loops forever because for each number x
and any string y, the comparison x<=y is always true.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>