On Feb 20, 9:35 am, icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I've changed this code a little. condition = True while ( condition ): try: integer_one = int ( raw_input( "Please enter an integer: " ) ) integer_two = int ( raw_input( "Please enter the second integer: " ) ) division = integer_one / integer_two except( ZeroDivisionError ): print "\nDivision by zero detected" except( ValueError ): print "\nYou didn't enter an integer" else: print "The result is", division answer = raw_input("Do you want to try again (yes or no)? ") print answer #answer="no" if answer == "yes": condition=True elif answer == "no": condition=False print "Good bye, you don't want to continue" print condition And i got this result in eclipse3.2: Please enter an integer: 8 Please enter the second integer: 4 The result is 2 Do you want to try again (yes or no)? no no Good bye, you don't want to continue True Please enter an integer: it seems the input "no" in eclipse's console to answer won't equal the "no" we compare. And when I remove the comment and I get this result: Please enter an integer: 8 Please enter the second integer: 4 The result is 2 Do you want to try again (yes or no)? no no Good bye, you don't want to continue False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list