Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I don't know why input() is the equivalent of eval(raw_input(prompt)), but
> it is. Presumably Guido thought it was a good idea at the time.
possibly inspired by ABC's "READ" and "READ RAW" commands:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/qr.html
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:05:48 -0800, ctilly wrote:
> That works, thanks. Can you tell me why the differences exist?
For those who have just joined us, "that" is using raw_input() instead of
input().
I don't know why input() is the equivalent of eval(raw_input(prompt)), but
it is. Presumably Guid
Methinks you are confused about the structure of your program.
If we write the program out in plain English in the form of a recipe,
it should look something like this:
1. Get input.
2. Check to see if they guessed right.
3. If not, go back to 1.
This structure hints at an infinite loop. The bre
Bryan Olson wrote:
> Try "rawinput()" instead.
or, less likely to give a NameError,
raw_input()
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That works, thanks. Can you tell me why the differences exist?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> But I would like to change it to be something like
>
> while yourguess != mynum:
>
> tries = tries + 1
> yourguess = input("Your guess? ")
>
> if len(yourguess)==0:
> continue
[...]
> But this throws the following error and I h
I have what I think is a very simple question. I have a Python script
that I found that I want to tweek a little bit. All I want to do is
add in a validator to make sure a value has been keyed into the imput
box.
The code currently is...
while yourguess != mynum:
tries = tries + 1
