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From: giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net>
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Subject: Re: while loop - multiple condition
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:04:42 +0200
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Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> writes:

> On 2014-10-12 22:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> is equivalent with
>> 
>>     while ans.lower()[0] != 'y':
>>          ans = input('Do you like python?')
>
> And still better improved with
>
>   while ans[:1].lower() != 'y':
>     ans = input('Do you like python?')

 yok is Turkish for an EMPHATIC NO
(or, at least, that's what I was led to think many years ago)