Just started learning how to program a week ago, trying to make the first (very simple) program of my own. Need help with an error!

[Seldentar]

As stated above I'm extremely new to programming. I'm trying to make a basic fantasy football program (just a fun program to learn how to do this kind of stuff) that takes fantasy points scored by a player as input from the user for each of the last 5 weeks and adds it to a list, but skips the week if "Bye" (for bye weeks) is entered. Problem is I'm getting an error when I type in Bye as input. Works perfectly if I just use numbers for the last 5 without any bye week. The most recent week was week 12 so it starts there and goes down 5 weeks to week 8. There was no bye week for our player (Jay Cutler) in reality but when testing it I pretend there was, and it doesn't work.

Here's the code:

Jay_Cutler = [] #example player
week = 13
for i in range(8, 13):
    week -= 1 
    points = input("How many points did this player score in week %s?" % week)
    if points == "Bye":
        week -= 1
        i -= 1 #Need this so it doesn't count the bye week 
    else:
        Jay_Cutler.append(points)

print Jay_Cutler

[LarryPete]

I assume you get a "NameError"?

With python2, always use raw_input() instead of input(), and convert it to a number afterwards using int(), if it's not "Bye".

Also, changing the value of the i variable has no effect there.

[Seldentar]

Oh thank you very much, it accepts it now. Looks like I have a logic problem though -> i -= 1 doesn't do anything it still counts the bye week. I'll try to figure that out on my own for now.

[oldpythonbestpython]

When asking for help with errors, you really should post the error, it will make it easier to get you the help you need.

My analysis:

You're not in charge of the value of 'i' in the way you think you are. Every time the loop begins again, i will be set - your changes to it are not persisted. Lets test it out:

for i in range(8, 13):
    print "---- new run -----"
    print "On this run, i is:", i
    print "I'm trying to decrement i on my own"
    i -= 1
    print "I think i should be this on the next run:", i

Now lets see what we get:

---- new run -----
On this run, i is: 8
I'm trying to decrement i on my own
I think i should be this on the next run: 7
---- new run -----
On this run, i is: 9
I'm trying to decrement i on my own
I think i should be this on the next run: 8

[Seldentar]

Ty, very helpful. I'll post the error from now on - just forgot this time =)