population increasewe

[jaison2]

The function has to show the population for year 1, 2 and so on until the population reaches 1 million. The population increases by 8% every year?

def population():
    current=input("please enter the current population of the city: ")
increase=current/100*8+current
year 1=increase

while increase>1000000?

[Mathhax0r]

def population_growth(argBase, argMax, argRate):
    assert argBase < argMax
    assert argRate > 0
    theAnswer = [argBase]
    iterAnswer = argBase
    while True:
        iterAnswer *= 1+argRate
        theAnswer.append(iterAnswer)
        if iterAnswer > argMax:
            break
    return theAnswer
uBasePop = int(raw_input("Enter the base population: "))
print population_growth(uBasePop, 1000000, .08)

I didn't know what you're needs were so I made it fairly abstract. Is this what you're looking for?

[jaison2]

def population_growth(argBase, argMax, argRate):
    assert argBase < argMax
    assert argRate > 0
    theAnswer = [argBase]
    iterAnswer = argBase
    while True:
        iterAnswer *= 1+argRate
        theAnswer.append(iterAnswer)
        if iterAnswer > argMax:
            break
    return theAnswer
uBasePop = int(raw_input("Enter the base population: "))
print population_growth(uBasePop, 1000000, .08)

I didn't know what you're needs were so I made it fairly abstract. Is this what you're looking for?

yeah i havnt learned any of the operations you have put on here such as argbase, append etc... i need to use a while loop and display the results till it reaches 1million..... thx for the help

[jaison2]

here is my current code.. but it seems to work fine for the first year.. but the second year i want it increase 8% from the 1st year.. hw could i do tht?

def population():
    current=input("please enter the current population of the city: ")
    increase=current/100*8+current
    i=0
    while i<1000000:
        i=i+increase
        print "The population is", i

[vegaseat]

You have to put your increase calculation in the loop.

[tbone2sk]

def population():
    current=input("please enter the current population of the city: ")
    yearCount = 1
    print "At year 0 The population is ",current
    while current < 1000000:
        current += current*0.08
        print "At year ",yearCount,"The population is ",current
        yearCount += 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
    population()

[jaison2]

yearCount += 1
if name == 'main':
population()

can you just tell me about what is happening in these lines?

[tbone2sk]

It is just a

def main():
    main()

for testing the function population. Then all I do is call population(). If those 2 lines of code where not present then the function population would never run.
Also the yearCount is just totaling up the years.
yearCount += 1 is the same as yearCount = yearCount + 1

[masterofpuppets]

here's a more general version of this :) :

def population( start, maxPop, rate ):
    start += ( ( float( rate ) / 100 ) * start )
    year = 1
    while start <= maxPop:
        print year, "-", int( start )
        start += ( ( float( rate ) / 100 ) * start )
        year += 1

startPop = input( "Enter base population: " )
lim = input( "Enter population limit: " )
rate = input( "Enter rate of change in %, ( e.g. 8 ): " )

population( startPop, lim, rate )

[jaison2]

It is just a

def main():
    main()

for testing the function population. Then all I do is call population(). If those 2 lines of code where not present then the function population would never run.
Also the yearCount is just totaling up the years.
yearCount += 1 is the same as yearCount = yearCount + 1

if __name__ == '__main__':, is this the sam as saying def main()? and could you please tell me what you mean by totaling up the years?.. i understand the current+=current*0.08, this means that it does the interest on the predecessor and not the actual value which we have put in right?

[leegeorg07]

surely you dont need all the complication?

for the basic, and original problem surely you could use:

basepop=30 #or whatever you want.
while basepop<1000000:
  print basepop
  basepop*=1.08

for masterofpuppet's version I would use:

def population( start, maxPop, rate ):
    year = 1
    rate=1+rate
    while start < maxPop:
        print year, "-", int( start )
        start *=rate
        year += 1

startPop = input( "Enter base population: " )
lim = input( "Enter population limit: " )
rate = input( "Enter rate of change in %, ( e.g. 8 ): " )

population( startPop, lim, rate )