On 27 Apr 2006 02:48:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > why the output of this code : > x = 0 > while x < 10: > z = 0 > print x > x = x + 1 > while z < x: > print z, > z = z + 1
> is > 0 Okay, that was x, from the print statement inside the x-loop. > 0 1 And that's z, from the print statement inside the z-loop. z is 0, and then when z is 1, it's not less than x, so we're done printing z's. And then we get the next x. > 0 1 2 And two more z's, 0 and 1, since x is now 2. And another x. Since this might be homework, I'll stop at a hint: you need to think about when you want each printed line to end, and make sure that you tell python to end it there. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> "I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
