[Tutor] need help with python for counter
bob gailer
bgailer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 06:57:40 CET 2012
On 12/19/2012 12:40 AM, Brandon Merritt wrote:
> I feel silly, but I'm having the darndest time trying to figure out
> why this for counter won't work. I know that there is the count method
> for the string class, but I was just trying to do it the syntactical
> way to prove myself that I know the very basics. As of right now, my
> script is just returning 1 or 0, even if I very clearly make sure that
> I specify at least 4 instances of the digit in my number string:
>
> number = raw_input('Enter a 7-unit number: ')
>
> digit = raw_input('Enter a single digit: ')
>
> for i in number:
> count = 0
> if i == digit:
> count += 1
Drop next two statements and try agan
> else:
> count = 0
>
> print count
>
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Bob Gailer
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