"Ken G." <beach...@insightbb.com> wrote
I am trying to break out of a loop posted below. When asked for
monthdate, it should break out if I entered the number zero and it does
not. GRRR. Been working on this for almost an hour.
monthdate = 999
while monthdate <> 0:
You are comparing monthdate with a number but raw_input returns a string.
Also <> is deprecated, change it to !=
Try
while monthdate != "0":
and it should work.
Except....
monthdate = raw_input('Enter the month and date in two digit
format each: ') month = monthdate[0:2]
date = monthdate[2:4]
year = ('2009')
print month, date, year
With this code you always process monthdate so if the user
types zero it will fail.
The idiomatic Python way to do this is:
while True: # loop "forever"
monthdate = raw_input('Enter the month and date in two digit
format each: ')
if monthdate == "0":
break # exit the loop
month = monthdate[0:2]
date = monthdate[2:4]
year = ('2009')
print month, date, year
That change means you can get rid of the initial assignment to 999 too.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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