On Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:23:07 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Yves S. Garret > > <your...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In the example that I have posted from the book it works just fine. > > > > Yep, I just checked the book's version again and the difference is > > clear. Check out the two lines I quoted in my previous post, and look > > at the corresponding two lines in the book's version. You should see > > the difference. :) > > > > By the way, I like the choice of secret. It lends itself well to a > > discussion of recursion - how do you live to 99? Live to 98, then be > > careful. Etcetera. You need just one special case: How do you live to > > 1? Be born, then be careful. And there you have it, a perfect problem > > for defining recursion vs iteration, as both can do the job! > > > > ChrisA
*facepalm* Yep, I see it :) . Thanks for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list