> The solution is to use raw_input() which returns the user input as a string.
> Then you can do whatever validation you wish, e.g.
> menuChoice = int(raw_input("1 = write | 2 = view | 0 = quit"))
> which will raise an exception if the input is not a valid integer.
yes that did it, thanks-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
