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Date Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:12:43 -0400
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On 04/09/2013 09:57 AM, thomasancilleri@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:32:18 AM UTC-4, thomasa...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm new to learning python and creating a basic program to convert units of measurement which I will eventually expand upon but im trying to figure out how to loop the entire program. When I insert a while loop it only loops the first 2 lines. Can someone provide a detailed beginner friendly explanation. Here is my program. Also suddenly I'm getting an invalid syntax error next to my elif statements when I wasn't a minute ago. What is wrong here?
>>
>>
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> restart = "true"
>>
>> while restart == "true":
>>
>> #Program starts here
>>
>>      print "To start the Unit Converter please type the number next to the conversion you would like to perform"
>>
>>      choice = input("\n1:Inches to Meter\n2:Millileters to Pint\n3:Acres to Square-Miles\n")
>>
Quoting that many lines, and double-spacing every one of them is very 
impolite.  Almost makes me want to skip the thread.

If you must use buggy googlegroups, then at least fix its most annoying 
bugs:

     read this http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython.

(rest deleted, as the point has been made)



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DaveA

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    Re: While loop help Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-09 13:12 -0400
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