import random # Ask the user how many tosses to make and store the answer in numTosses numTosses = input('How many tosses? ') # Loop "numTosses" times numHeads = 0 numTails = 0 for t in xrange(numTosses): if random.random() < .5: numHeads += 1 else: numTails += 1 print 'There were ' + str(numHeads) + ' heads and ' + str(numTails) + ' tails'