[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1140725159.143882.202630
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>
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 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"
Raw_input isn't giving you what you think it is. You're comparing it to
an integer, not a string. Does that help?
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