Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Problem: I wish to run an infinite loop and initialize a variable on > > each iteration. Sort of like, "Enter Data", test it, "No good!", "Next > > Try?", test it, etc. What I've tried is simply while 1: var1 = > > raw_input, test var1, then run through the loop again. What results is > > var1 gets and keeps the first value it receives. > > Hmmm. I get a syntax error. > > >>> while 1: > ... var1 = raw_input > ... test var1 > File "<stdin>", line 3 > test var1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > How about posting your actual code? Soitenly. #!/usr/bin/python #simple guessing game, with numbers import random spam = random.randint(1, 100) print spam #debugging purposes while 1: guess = raw_input("What's your guess, friend? ") if guess == spam: print "You got it! Nicely done." break elif guess < spam: print "Sorry, too low. Try again." elif guess > spam: print "Sorry, too high. Try again." else: print "You guessed ", guess > You could try this: > > while 1: > var = raw_input("Give me some data! ") > if var == "some data": > print "Success!" > break > else: > print "No good, try again." That works fine with strings and when "some_data" is hardcoded. I run into trouble when "some data" is replaced with a number, unquoted. It simply says "No good, etc" > -- > Steven.
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