from turtle import *

col = ["black", "white"]

for rad in range(40, 0, -1): 
    dot(5*rad, col[rad % 2])
    
done()
======================
Any other step than -1 crashes the code.

Thank you.

Correction to my msg387472: Every *even* step crashes the code.

If I understand correctly, changing the -1 to a -2 does not actually make the program "crash" -- you just only see one black circle.

The reason is that range(40, 0, -2) produces 40, 38, 36, etc., all of which are even numbers, so rad % 2 is always 0, so col[rad % 2] is always "black". You could try:

    for index, rad in enumerate(range(40, 0, -2)): 
        dot(5*rad, col[index % 2])

In the future, I would suggest asking questions like this on StackOverflow, since this is not a bug in Python itself.

Thank you Dennis for taking the time to answer.
Yehuda

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 3:21 AM Dennis Sweeney <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> If I understand correctly, changing the -1 to a -2 does not actually make
> the program "crash" -- you just only see one black circle.
>
> The reason is that range(40, 0, -2) produces 40, 38, 36, etc., all of
> which are even numbers, so rad % 2 is always 0, so col[rad % 2] is always
> "black". You could try:
>
>     for index, rad in enumerate(range(40, 0, -2)):
>         dot(5*rad, col[index % 2])
>
> In the future, I would suggest asking questions like this on
> StackOverflow, since this is not a bug in Python itself.
>
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> nosy: +Dennis Sweeney
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Yehuda, one can also ask questions like this on python-list.

In the future, when responding by email, please delete the message being responded to, so it does not get repeated when posted to the web page.

Thank you Terry, and take care.

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On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 4:41 AM Terry J. Reedy <report@bugs.python.org>
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> Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment:
>
> Yehuda, one can also ask questions like this on python-list.
>
> In the future, when responding by email, please delete the message being
> responded to, so it does not get repeated when posted to the web page.
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> resolution:  -> not a bug
> stage:  -> resolved
> status: open -> closed
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