At a certain time, now past [Jun.30.2003-10:51:14PM +0200], kalle@[...].se spake thusly:
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>  [Matthew Richardson]
>  > s = raw_input('Enter a name: ')
>  > x = 0
>  > while x >= 0:
>  >     print s[x]
>  >     x += 1
>  > 
>  > The error is expected because the counter goes on beyond the number of
>  > characters in the string and runs out of stuff to print.  Got that part
>  > of it.  How can I count the number of characters in the string?  Then
>  > the while statement could be changed to
>  > 
>  > while x <= NumOfChar:
>  >     dosomestuff
>  
>  This is very close to the correct solution.  You get the number of
>  characters in the string with the len() built-in function.  But
>  
>    s = raw_input('Enter a name: ')
>    x = 0
>    while x <= len(s):
>        print s[x]
>        x += 1
>  
>  will still result in an IndexError (even though it's close to being
>  correct).  Do you see why?

[newbie swing ;-)]

I know it works, but would it be bad to do something like
       
s = raw_input('Enter a name: ')
    for x in range(0, len(s)):
    print s[x]

There's no need to initialize x, or declare our math statement in the code.
Thoughts, corrections?

       ~elh

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