On 2:59 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
<snip>
Now I thought this would work:def readposint():
x = raw_input("Please enter a positive integer :")
try:
x = int(x) and x> 0
except:
print x , "is not a positive integer. Try again."
return False
return Truey = readposint()
prin<snip>
There's no exception triggered by the valid expression
x = int(x) and x > 0
when x is negative. That's a perfectly valid expression, as long as the
string is valid numeric. It doesn't set x to what you might expect,
though - try it with x = "3".
Leave the try statement around the int(x), which can indeed throw an
exception. But you need a separate if statement to test whether x is
greater than zero.
DaveA
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