Hello Dany :-) On 12/23/05, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > x = raw_input("x : ") > > if x.isdigit(): # ensure input is a number > > y = int(x) # convert to integer > > else: > > print 'Boo" > > > Hello Bob and Panagiotis, > > It might be good to make this number-reading thing a function, just to > make it easier to reuse (and test!) it. Let's call this input_number() > for the moment. > > ####################################################### > def input_number(prompt): > """Reads an integer from the next line of input.""" > while 1: > x = raw_input(prompt) > if x.isdigit(): > return int(x) > else: > print 'Boo' > ####################################################### > > > Does this work? Let's try it informally: > > ###### > >>> input_number('number please: ') > number please: 1 > 1 > >>> input_number('number please: ') > number please: 1234 > 1234 > >>> input_number('number please: ') > number please: 1st > Boo > number please: 74 > 74 > >>> > ###### > > I added one more behavior so that input_number continues to ask until it's > satisified by a number. Hope this helps!
Yes, it really helps a lot. Now I can proceed with my script!! Thank you for the reply, Best Regards, Panagiotis _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor