Actually, I have gedit set to four spaces per tab. I have no reason
why it's showing up that large on copy/paste, but the file itself is
fine.
Thanks for the advice Chris, Stephen, I can definitely see how those
are both far better ways of doing it. I have it as:
#!/usr/bin/python
#Py3k, UTF-8
bank = int(input("How much money is in your account?\n>>"))
if bank <=0:
print("You need a postive amount to gain interest.")
quit()
target = int(input("How much money would you like to earn each year?
\n>>"))
interest = 0
i = 0
while interest < target:
#determine the interest rate to use
if bank >= 100000:
rate = 0.0173
elif bank >= 50000:
rate = 0.0149
elif bank >= 25000:
rate = 0.0124
elif bank >= 10000:
rate = 0.0085
else:
rate = 0.0060
#Now that we know what interest rate to use, apply it...
lastbank = bank #To calculate interest...
bank += (bank * rate) #Update earnings...
interest = bank - lastbank #And figure out how much interest is made!
i += 1 #So we can see which year a calculation represents
print("Year %s, at %s rate: %s paid, %s in bank." % (i, rate,
interest, bank))
now it checks to make sure the account is positive before moving on,
in addition to using your recommendations on readability and
efficiency in getting the rate
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