I promise that this is not homework. I am trying to self teach here
and have run into an interesting problem. I have created a method
that asks for a class name and then is supposed to add it to classes
[]. Here is a snippet:
def getCurrentClasses():
classes = []
print 'Please enter the class name. When finished enter D.'
while (c != "D"):
c = raw_input("Enter class name")
if (c != "D"):
classes.append(c)
I have been running this in the interactive interpreter and if I
print the list I get the string "Enter class name" as the first entry
in the list and what was supposed to be the first entry as the second
element like this:
Enter class name: cs1
['Enter class name: cs1']
I guess that I assumed that c would be equal to the value entered by
the user not the prompt string. It actually looks like it is taking
the whole thing as one string. But then if I enter more classes I
get this:
Enter class name: cs2
['Enter class name: cs1', 'cs2']
So with the second and successive inputs, it appends the entered string.
Hopefully someone could enlighten me as to what is going on and maybe
offer a suggestion to help me figure this one out.
Thank you for your time,
Brian
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