Resolved: Question 1 answer - count

Hey Mohamed,

Thank you for your question!

Let's discuss the while-loop. Note that the else keyword is only used in an if-else construction. Therefore, the first modification I would suggest is removing the else keyword and unindenting the code in lines 69 and 70, so that they stay outside of the loop:

while num_1 < 1 or num_1 > 100 or num_2 < 1 or num_2 > 100 or num_1 == num_2:
    print('try again')
    num_1 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))
    num_2 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))

count += 1
my_list.append(list(range(num_1, num_2)))

Next, note that

count += 1

is executed only once—when the conditions for the num_1 and num_2  variables are satisfied and you exit the while-loop. If you want to get the count of the numbers, I would suggest either finding the length of the list that stores the numbers (my_list in your case), or computing it as follows:

count = num_2 - num_1 + 1

Which brirngs me to my comment regarding the my_list variable. Notice that in line 61, you create a list of the numbers between num_1 and num_2. However, they might be numbers outside the range [1, 100]. I would therefore suggest removing the code in line 70 and moving the code from line 61 to line 70, i.e.

num_1 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))
num_2 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))

while num_1 < 1 or num_1 > 100 or num_2 < 1 or num_2 > 100 or num_1 == num_2:
    print('try again')
    num_1 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))
    num_2 = int(input('please enter a number between 1 and 100: '))

count = num_2 - num_1 + 1
my_list = list(range(num_1, num_2))

print(f'count: {count} \nlist: {my_list}')

Next, note that the range() function that you use to create my_list includes num_1 but excludes num_2. Therefore, in order to include num_2 to the list of numbers, you would have to add +1 like so:

my_list = list(range(num_1, num_2+1))

And finally, my last comment thta I would leave to you to resolve is that your code assumes that num_1 is smaller than num_2. That, however, doesn't have to be the case. Think about how you can modify your code, so that it creates the list of numbers in both cases:

1. num_1 < num_2

2. num_1 > num_2

Hope this helps! Let me know if you experience other issues.

Kind regards,

365 Hristina