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From: Richard Hultgren <hultgren1...@yahoo.com>
To: tutor@python.org
Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 2:53:40 PM
Subject: loops
I'm quite new but determined. Can you explain to me, step by step, what is
going on in the computer in this loop. I hope I am not being too dumb!
a = 0
b = 1
count = 0
max_count = 20
while count < max_count:
count = count + 1
# we need to keep track of a since we change it
old_a = a # especially here
old_b = b
a = old_b
b = old_a + old_b
# Notice that the , at the end of a print statement keeps it
# from switching to a new line
print old_a,
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