how to count amount of "heads" and amount of "Tails" produced from random coin flip?

Question

i want to count and output the amount of times heads and tails are occur in a coin toss based of a users input of amount of coin tosses they want.

so far with this I get no of heads: 1 and no of tails: 1

i also want to get a count of how many coin flip tries it takes to get a list of all heads and then of all tails, but im struggling with this first!

here is my code:

# This program simulates tosses of a coin.
import random
heads = "Heads"
tails = "Tails"
count = 0

def main():
    tosses = int(input("Enter number of tosses:")) 
    coin(tosses)
    print("Total number of heads:",(heads.count(heads)))
    print("Total number of tails:", (tails.count(tails)))
    
#end of main function    

def coin(tosses):
    for toss in range(tosses):
        # Simulate the coin toss.
        if random.randint(1, 2) == 1:
            print(heads)
        else:
            print(tails)
    return (heads.count(heads),(tails.count(tails)))
        # end of if statement
     #end of for loop   
#end of coin function

            
# Call the main function.
main()

Answer 1

I've made some edits to your code! It doesn't need to be as complicated as you made it to be. Let me know if you have any questions!

# This program simulates tosses of a coin.
import random

# function to toss coins and increment head/tail counts
def coin(tosses):

    # store the counts of each respective result
    heads = 0
    tails = 0

    for toss in range(tosses):
        # simulate the coin toss
        if random.randint(1, 2) == 1:
            print("Heads!")
            heads+=1 # increment count for heads
        else:
            print("Tails!")
            tails+=1 # increment count for tails

    return heads, tails

# main function
def main():
    # get user input
    tosses = int(input("Enter number of tosses:")) 

    # toss coins
    heads, tails = coin(tosses)

    # print final result
    print("Total number of heads:", heads)
    print("Total number of tails:", tails)


# call the main function
main()