Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Bart Willems wrote:
>> ...
>> I always try to stay away from 'negative' operators if possible, to
>> improve readability:
>>
>> while True:
>> hint = raw_input('\nAre you stuck? y/n: ').lower()
>> if hint = 'y' or hint = 'n':
>> break
>> else:
>> print 'Please answer yes or no'
>
> And if you really want to see what is going wrong, replace that last by:
> print 'Please answer yes or no (not %r):' % hint
>
Better still, use
Please answer y or n
since those are the values you are testing for ...
regards
Steve
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