[Tutor] For Loops Program Issue

[P L]

Your range will be whatever input that is given. There's no need to include the result variable in the input range. Second issue, you can simplify the formula even more:  result *= ? followed by a second line of instructions for n.

Best of luck,
Pat

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From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+la_spirou=hotmail.com at python.org> on behalf of eric grunfeld <grunfelderic at gmail.com>
Sent: August 18, 2020 11:17 AM
To: tutor at python.org <tutor at python.org>
Subject: [Tutor] For Loops Program Issue

Good Morning Everyone:

I am currently taking a beginners Python course that is being taught by
Google, on the Coursera platform.

I have been working on a problem but I seem to be obtaining an error
message after running the program.

Here is the problem:

def factorial(n):
    result = 1
    for i in range(result,n):
        result = result * n+1
    return result

print(factorial(4)) # should return 24
print(factorial(5)) # should return 120:

Here is the the error message that I have been receiving:

Here is your output:
85
781

Not quite. Pay attention at the operations that the code is
doing and make sure that the factorial function returns the
product of the numbers between 1 and n.

Based upon my understanding, it appears that my issue is with the set-up of
my range.

I look forward to any thoughts or comments that you may have.

All the best,
Eric
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