> Desired behavior: when I type 'exit' the program should quit. def search(): user_input = '' while True: user_input = raw_input('Search for: ') if user_input == 'exit': break print 'processing', user_input
Note that putting user input directly into SQL statements leaves your database open to SQL-injection attacks :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list