> To the original poster.... what environment are you running this in? Linux. Xubuntu if that matters.
> When I put your program in notepad and run it from the windows command > prompt it works. yeah yeah...same here. After I got the tip that it actually worked, I went into the eclipse directory where the program lives, ran it there from the shell, and it worked. Meaning, I didn't modify anything on the file itself (by accident or on purpose). > But when I paste it into eclipse and run it > eclipse's console, it doesn't work because answer seems to have a > stray '\r' carriage return (CR) and therefore the comparison to 'no' > fails. I get no 'compile' errors there. I get regular execution but it just doesn't change the condition to False at the very end. Therefore it loops forever. I used other values like zeros and ones to make sure I could print the values when the interpreter got down to that line. Everything checked. Just didn't change the condition on the main loop. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list