> The solution is to use raw_input() which returns the user input as a string.
> Then you can do whatever validation you wish, e.g.
> menuChoice = int(raw_input("1 = write | 2 = view | 0 = quit"))
> which will raise an exception if the input is not a valid integer.
yes that did it, thanks
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hi
my goal is to handle the problem of a user typing a letter or symbol
rather than a number I found something called try: and ValueError:
Anyway this is what i attempted:
#menuloop
menuChoice = 7
printMenu()
while menuChoice != 0:
try:
menuChoice = int("1 = write | 2 = v
hi
i've been writing a golf game in text only. this was to work out some of
details. it's great but making a golf course with ---'s and |||'s is
kinda silly looking. (at least to some..)
now i'm ready to begin shopping for a gui widget to work with python so
my players can have some kind of pict
