Hello

I am trying to complete the easiest challenge in a resource of programming challenges I found in a comment on this subreddit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TyqD2_oDtiQIh_Y55J5RfeA91JJECc97xYIKM112H9I/edit )

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The challenge is to print the entire lyrics of the song "99 bottles of beer on the wall" with the stipulations :

1. If you are going to use a list for all of the numbers, do not manually type them all in. Instead, use a built in function.
2. Besides the phrase "take one down," you may not type in any numbers/names of numbers directly into your song lyrics.
3. Remember, when you reach 1 bottle left, the word "bottles" becomes singular.
4. Put a blank line between each verse of the song.

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so far this is what I have come up with. Please let me know if I am going in the right direction? I currently get an invalid syntax error on line 4 bottles:

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for i in range(0,99):
    bottles = 99
    print((str(bottles)   ' bottles of beer on the wall, '   (str(bottles)   ' bottles of                 
beer. Take one down, pass itaround. ')
    bottles = bottles - 1
    print((str(bottles)   ' of beer on the wall.')

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My initial thought was bottles in line 4 was invalid because I defined it outside of the for loop, but then I created it as a variable inside the loop instead. Is that an example of global variables or does that only apply to functions?

Sorry if I am way off base, it is day 1 of learning and it all seems pretty daunting.

Thank you

EDIT: For some reason I cant indent on reddit? However, I do have an indent starting on line 2

EDIT 2: I got it! Here is what I ended up with:

for bottles in range(99,0,-1):
    if bottles == 1:
        break
    print(str(bottles)   ' bottles of beer on the wall, '   str(bottles)   ' bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around.')
    print(str(bottles)   ' bottles of beer on the wall.')
print(str(bottles)   ' bottle of beer! Take it down, pass it around. No bottles of beer on the wall!')

/u/crashfrog's comment about how for loops can increase / decrease by a set counter and the parenthesis really helped.

This feels great, it was my first attempt at something outside of the guided tutorials/lessons that I used all last night. Thank you all very much :)