On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:54:23AM -0400, Dave Angel wrote:
>William Witteman wrote:
>>Thanks to all who responded. There were several good points about the
>>code itself, all of which both helped and work.
>>
>>I will likely use Alan's example because I find it the most lucid, but
>>the other suggestions are good signposts to other ways to do the same
>>thing (but right, as opposed to how I was doing it).
>>
>>Lie's suggestion that I didn't understand the calling structure of
>>Python was right on the money, and his included link helps with that,
>>too. Thanks again.
>You need a loop, and putting a while True: around the whole thing
>solves it nicely. Don't *call* the function again, just loop back
>and do the operation again. That's what loops are for.
True, that's why my code currently looks like this:
def getinput(prompt):
"""
Get the input by prompting the user and collecting the response - if it is
a non-integer, try again.
"""
while True:
try:
return int(raw_input(prompt))
except ValueError:
print("We need an integer (number) here.")
>Incidentally, learning about recursion is a very good thing, and
>useful. I just don't think it's the right answer here.
I wasn't learning about recursion - I have to use it fairly often, but
you are right that it isn't the right approach here.
--
yours,
William
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