On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:02:10 +0100, I hastily wrote:
>Incidentally, I forgot to quote the next line:
>
>count[-1] = m
That was copied-and-pasted from an older version of the program,
with less descriptive identifiers. 'm' should be 'amnt'.
>Of course, this is much better incorporated into the loop, thus:
>
>for i in range(LEN):
> (count[i], amnt) = divmod(amnt, value[i])
>
>[...]
>
>So it looks like we should have something like:
>
>plural = {'penny':'pennies'}
>
>counts = {}
>for val in value:
> (count, amnt) = divmod(amnt, val)
> counts[val] = count
Better, of course (I still haven't run it, but it should work):
counts = {}
for val in value:
(counts[val], amnt) = divmod(amnt, val)
>I'm much happier now, thanks!
... but also rather annoyed with myself.
--
Angus Rodgers
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