On 04/09/2013 12:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I responded before I saw this message, this was very helpful so I appreciate
your quick and helpful responses. So do you think prompting for a string and
then checking if the string is true is a good practice for something like this?
When would checking for true/false be necessary?
No, DON'T check for the string to be true, check if it matches the
requirements. Word the question for the user's convenience, not the
programming language's. Don't ask for true and false, ask "Continue?"
and accept "Y" or "N". Or ask "Q for quit". Or whatever. Make your
comparison case-insensitive, and permit one-character responses.
continue = "y"
while continue[:1].lower() == "y":
do some work
continue = raw_input("Do you want to continue (y/n)?"
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