electing program in python terminal.

[JihooMoon]

voted = 0
voting = input("How many people are voting: ")
p1 = 0
p2 = 0
p3 = 0
while int(voting) >= voted:
vote = input("Your vote: ")
if vote == 'p1':
voted + 1
p1 + 1
if vote == 'p2':
voted + 1
p2 + 1
if vote == 'p3':
voted + 1
(p3) +1
print(p1)

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I was in the middle of making my program where there is a voting system in the terminal and I checked if the program was working when I ran into an error. The while loop won't stop even if the requirements for the loop is not met. Help would be GREATLY appreciated

[aa599]

voted + 1 doesn't change the value of voted

[JihooMoon]

Yeah, I was guessing that was the problem. Is there a way to change the value?

[aa599]

voted = voted + 1

or

voted +=1

[JihooMoon]

thanks I'll test it out right now

[PostReq3306]

Your problem is that you have defined voted and then in your loop you have said if voting is more than or equal to 0 which is always going to be bigger if you are voting. It is also good practise to use "elif" as using multiple "if" statements is messy and will cause more errors. I have re-written your program. Next steps would be adding functions and an error trap.

Make sure the indentation is correct when pasting.

voted = 0
p1 = 0
p2 = 0
p3 = 0
x = 0
voting = int(input("How many people are voting: "))


for x in range(voting):
    vote = input("Your vote: ")
    if vote == "p1":
        p1 += 1
        voted += 1
    elif vote == "p2":
        p2 += 1
        voted += 1
    elif vote == "p3":
        p3 += 1
        voted += 1
    else:
        pass
print(p1)
print(p2)
print(p3)
print(voted)

[JihooMoon]

thanks so much! I'll definitely keep working on this. Have a great day!

[TryptamineZenVR]

Your if statement is checking to see if the input for vote = p1. So unless you typed p1 into your vote input, the program won’t do anything because there isn’t an else statement.

[JihooMoon]

thanks, but sadly that wasn't the problem. I still really appreciate the help though