On 31Mar2017 16:12, 2019.cavanau...@fpsedu.org <2019.cavanau...@fpsedu.org>
wrote:
Hello I've been coding for about 1 or 2 months and i have encountered a problem
with a 'while' statement. It keeps looping even when the statement is false,
here is the code. The code is for a game that I'm making that resembles the
Oregon Trial.
Obviously the statement (well, "test") isn't false! Let's look:
[...]
answer8 = ""
while answer8 != ("1") or answer8 != ("2"):
[...]
Answer8 cannot be both "1" and also "2". Therefore, it will always _not_ be
equal to at least one of "1" and "2". Therefore this test is always true.
You might better write this:
while answer8 not in ("1", "2"):
or:
while not( answer8 == "1" or answer8 == "2" ):
BTW, you need to decide whther you're working in strings or integers. input()
in Python 3 returns a string. If you want to test against strings, fine.
However, if you want to test against numbers you need to convert the string to
a number:
answer8n = int(answer8)
and then test against answer8n.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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