> On Oct 28, 2019, at 8:42 AM, ferzan saglam <ferzan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can I stop this code when -1 is typed or at a maximum item count of ten.
> At the moment the code seems to be in a infinite loop meaning it keeps on
> asking for an entry until -1 is typed
>
>
> total = 0
> while True:
>
> print('Cost of item')
>
> item = input()
>
> if item != -1:
> total = total + item
> if item == -1:
>
> break
>
> print(total)
> --
Sorry about the blank post— I attempted to scroll down, but instead of doing
that,it sent the message.
From the documentation (emphasis is mine):
“input([prompt])
If the prompt argument is present, it is written to standard output without a
trailing newline. The function then reads a line from input, converts it to a
string (stripping a trailing newline), and returns that. When EOF is read,
EOFError is raised.
So you don’t have a number; you have a string. Presuming that the string
contains an integer, You can convert that string to an integer number with the
built in int() function.
Bev in TX
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