Scott Dunning <swdunn...@me.com> Wrote in message:
>
> On Mar 31, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
>>
>> Do you know how to define and initialize a second local variable?
>> Create one called i, with a value zero.
>>
>> You test expression will not have a literal, but compare the two
>> locals. And the statement that increments will change i, not
>> n.
>
> So like this?
> def print_n(s,n):
> i = 0
> while i < n:
> print s,
> i += 1
>
> print_n('a',3)
>
> So this is basically making i bigger by +1 every time the while loop passes
> until it passes n, then it becomes false right?
>
> Also, with this exercise itâs using a doctest so I donât actually call
> the function so I canât figure out a way to make the stringâs print on
> separate lines without changing the doctest code?
>
The trailing comma on the print statement is suppressing the
newline that's printed by default. If you want them on separate
lines, get rid of the comma.
--
DaveA
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