On 02/26/2016 09:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:30:19PM -0500, Ken G. wrote:
side = ""
while side != "0" or side != "1" or side != "2":
That will only exit if side == "0", "1" and "2" **at the same time**.
Clearly that is impossible, so the condition is always true, and the
while loop will never end.
Trying to reason about "reversed conditions" like that is hard, much
much harder than reasoning about ordinary conditions. You should
re-write it in terms of equality, then reverse the condition once:
while side not in ("0", "1", "2):
...
Thanks Danny and Steven for your response. I will rewrite the code and
try again. I had no idea I opened up a can of worms and now, I am
putting them back. Thanks!
Ken
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