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Re: Novice Issue

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Date 2013-04-18 19:06 +1000
Subject Re: Novice Issue
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.758.1366275971.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Wolfgang Maier
<wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> There are two solutions for that:
> the obvious: while not (raw_input == "quit" or raw_input == "q")

That has another problem: Once that's changed to raw_input() so it
actually requests input, it will do so twice, compare the first line
against "quit" and the second against "q", and proceed on that basis.
The membership test raw_input() in ("quit","q") is going to be far
better.

ChrisA

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Novice Issue Bradley Wright <bradley.wright.biz@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 21:06 -0700
  Re: Novice Issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 14:14 +1000
  Re: Novice Issue Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2013-04-18 08:58 +0000
  Re: Novice Issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 19:06 +1000
  Re: Novice Issue Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-18 11:10 +0100
  Re: Novice Issue Bradley Wright <bradley.wright.biz@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 05:18 -0700
    Re: Novice Issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-18 08:29 -0400
  Re: Novice Issue Bradley Wright <bradley.wright.biz@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 05:34 -0700
  Re: Novice Issue John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-04-18 14:21 +0000

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