Gary M. Josack wrote:
Ben Kaplan wrote:
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:44 AM, "Gary M. Josack" <g...@byoteki.com> wrote:
garywood wrote:
def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint="Yes or no, please!"):
while True:
password = input("enter something")
if password in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): return True
if password in ('n', 'no', 'nope'): return False
retries = retries - 1
if retries < 0:
raise IOError('refusenik user')
print(complaint)
Well since you didn't give an error I'm going to assume your problems
are as follows:
* Use raw_input() instead of input() # input evals the input received.
* pass prompt as the argument to raw_input so that your prompt gets
set # might want to give prompt a default value
* password.lower() so Y, YE, YES, N, NO, NOPE also work for input
Did you miss the python 3 part? Raw_input was removed and input now
behaves like raw_input did in 2.x
Ah, yes. Subject got truncated on my little laptop screen. Either way,
more information is needed to diagnose the problem.
It is a bad idea to have post content exclusively in the headers.
Readers sometimes select by subject, but only read content.
However the answer the OP is looking for with his ill-formed
question could be revealed if his final print were:
print('%s on reply %r' % (complaint, password))
He'd realize he wanted:
password = input(prompt).rstrip()
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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