Python code for the coin toss issues

Question

I've been writing a program in python that simulates 100 coin tosses and gives the total number of tosses. The problem is that I also want to print the total number of heads and tails.

Here's my code:

import random
tries = 0
while tries < 100:
    tries += 1
    coin = random.randint(1, 2)
    if coin == 1:
        print('Heads')
    if coin == 2:
        print ('Tails')
total = tries
print(total)

I've been racking my brain for a solution and so far I have nothing. Is there any way to get the number of heads and tails printed in addition to the total number of tosses?

Answer 1

import random

samples = [ random.randint(1, 2) for i in range(100) ]
heads = samples.count(1)
tails = samples.count(2)

for s in samples:
    msg = 'Heads' if s==1 else 'Tails'
    print msg

print "Heads count=%d, Tails count=%d" % (heads, tails)