>  1.Multiply 1 by 2
>  2.Take the result and multiply by 2
>  3.So on and so on thirty times
>  4.Print the final result
>  

First, thanks for the well stated problem specification, 
it always helps :-)


>  I tried this:
>  
  b = 1  # initialise b
>  for i in range(1,31):
>  		b = i * 2   # replace this with

            b = b * 2

>  		print b

Should work.

Just use the range to count the number of iterations but the 
number to multiply is b not i. (Try renaming b to result and 
see if it becomes clearer - using variable names that match 
your problem statement is usally a good dea - check the 
chapter on Style.

BTW Your function just works out the 30th power of two so 
the same end result comes (faster) from:

print pow(2,30)

But that doesn't display intermediate values or teach you 
about loops ;-)

Alan g.
Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld


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