[Tutor] Printing a list count - Help

[boB Stepp]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Derek Jenkins <derektjenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a list that I want to go through and finally print a total
> count of particular items. In this case, I want to print the result of
> how many A's and B's are in the list.
>
> honor_roll_count = 0
> student_grades = ["A", "C", "B", "B", "C", "A", "F", "B", "B", "B", "C", "A"]
>
> for grades in student_grades:
>     honor_roll_count = honor_roll_count + 1
>     if grades == "A" or grades == "B":
>         print honor_roll_count
>

Are you sure you have your increment of honor_roll_count where you
want it? As it is placed you are counting how many grades of any kind
there are.

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