this is a really easy coding problem, I haven't coded since highschool, and I am super rusty! I'm probably missing something super obvious. I get an invalid syntax error on the for line of the code, an I don't understand why.. how can I get this simple code to work? what am I doing wrong?
p=1
a=p+60
p = p+6*2/2*45
if (p == 271):
p=3000
print ("this is p:")
print (p)
print ("this is a")
print (a)
for ( p > a ):
p=p-1
print (p)
You're using a for loop when you should be using a while loop. A for loop will loop through an iterable object or collection and a while loop will continue as long as a condition is True. Also the parentheses are not need for if and for:
p=1
a=p+60
p = p+6*2/2*45
if p == 271:
p=3000
print ("this is p:")
print (p)
print ("this is a")
print (a)
while p > a :
p=p-1
print (p)
Python's for construct is logically equivalent to the foreach construct in many other languages; in other words, it is for iterating over the items in an iterable.
From your code, it looks like you are trying to keep iterating as long as the condition p > a holds true. In Python, this is a situation where you would want to use a while loop:
while p > a:
p = p - 1
print(p)
Note also that you don't need parentheses around the condition, unlike in some other languages.
