Programming Forums - While And Random Problem [solved]

G'day all

I am working my way through a book called "Python programming for absolute beginners" (I have very little programming experience) and at the end of one chapter you are asked to write a simple coin toss programme that tosses a coin 100 times and prints the result of each toss either as "heads" or "tails" using a while loop. I can get the random to work without the loop but I can't get it working properly using the loop, each toss is exactly the same (eg 100 instances of "heads"), though randomly it will change to the other and every time I run the programme for some time it will generate that.

Here is the code:

# Coin Toss programme

# Flips 100 coins and reports heads or tails



# Stuart Graham 10/12/04



import random

coin = random.randrange(2)



count = 0

toss = int(raw_input("enter number of tosses "))



while (count < toss): *

 *if (coin == 0):

 * *print "heads", coin

 *else: #(coin == 1)

 * *print "tails", coin



 *count += 1

While fiddling I have tried things like having the count += 1 directly after the while and I have added the toss to see if it makes any difference. It hasn't, beyond allowing me to change the number of coins tossed. I have tried coin = random.randrange(0.0, 1.0). Everything I have tried ends up with the same result.

Any hints would be appreciated as this is bugging the living daylights out of me.