Comments on: Loops and User Input http://metaleks.net Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:41:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aleks http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-833 Aleks Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:01:45 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-833 @LG: You should have posted your code. It's hard to tell what needs fixing. Thankfully, your error is a really simple one. Python is telling you either that your indentations are inconsistent (meaning you're using 4 spaces here, and a different amount elsewhere), or (and more likely) that "count = True" is misplaced. Look through your code. Should "count = True" be in an indented block of code, or should it be outside a block? I am almost certain that is your error, but I can't do anything to help since you haven't shown me your code! :) @LG: You should have posted your code. It’s hard to tell what needs fixing. Thankfully, your error is a really simple one. Python is telling you either that your indentations are inconsistent (meaning you’re using 4 spaces here, and a different amount elsewhere), or (and more likely) that “count = True” is misplaced. Look through your code. Should “count = True” be in an indented block of code, or should it be outside a block? I am almost certain that is your error, but I can’t do anything to help since you haven’t shown me your code! :)

]]> By: LG http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-829 LG Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:41:24 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-829 python /afs/cs.up.ac.za/user/students/s26475627/cos333_Python/cos333_python.py File "/afs/cs.up.ac.za/user/students/s26475627/cos333_Python/cos333_python.py", line 6 count = True ^ IndentationError: expected an indented block *** Exited with status: 1 *** python /afs/cs.up.ac.za/user/students/s26475627/cos333_Python/cos333_python.py
File “/afs/cs.up.ac.za/user/students/s26475627/cos333_Python/cos333_python.py”, line 6
count = True
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
*** Exited with status: 1 ***

]]> By: Aleks http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-823 Aleks Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:36:32 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-823 Thanks for the comment! You’re absolutely right, and I can’t believe that I made such a rookie error. I have changed it to just “exit” to fix things up. Since your correction uses arrays, and I haven’t covered arrays in any my tutorials yet, I couldn’t use it! Sorry, but thanks for the comment, it’s appreciated. Thanks for the comment!

You’re absolutely right, and I can’t believe that I made such a rookie error. I have changed it to just “exit” to fix things up. Since your correction uses arrays, and I haven’t covered arrays in any my tutorials yet, I couldn’t use it! Sorry, but thanks for the comment, it’s appreciated.

]]> By: gerlos http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-821 gerlos Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:35:32 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-821 Hey! Your code in the last example is (semantically) wrong! This statement: userInput == "q" or "Q" or "Quit" or "quit" is always True, since almost one ("Q", for example) of the statements connected by "or" is always True! The loops ends always, no matters what the user has typed before! So you should change this line: if userInput == "q" or "Q" or "Quit" or "quit": In this way: if userInput in ["q", "Q", "Quit", "quit"]: Anyway, good tutorial, kudos! :-) Hey!
Your code in the last example is (semantically) wrong! This statement:
userInput == “q” or “Q” or “Quit” or “quit”

is always True, since almost one (“Q”, for example) of the statements connected by “or” is always True!

The loops ends always, no matters what the user has typed before!

So you should change this line:
if userInput == “q” or “Q” or “Quit” or “quit”:

In this way:
if userInput in ["q", "Q", "Quit", "quit"]:

Anyway, good tutorial, kudos! :-)

]]> By: Rick Nomak http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-816 Rick Nomak Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:44:16 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-816 Thanks! That interactive interactive konsole bit gave me a very good 'kick over the threshold' to extend my tcl horizon with the python language, the other parts gave me a good base to see the logic behind the syntax the way i do in tcl... 1 + 1 = 2 Thanx! Thanks! That interactive interactive konsole bit gave me a very good ‘kick over the threshold’ to extend my tcl horizon with the python language, the other parts gave me a good base to see the logic behind the syntax the way i do in tcl…
1 + 1 = 2 Thanx!

]]> By: Aleks http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-36 Aleks Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:03:21 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-36 Ah! Thank you, good sir! I don't know why that's there. Corrected. :-) Ah! Thank you, good sir! I don’t know why that’s there.

Corrected. :-)

]]> By: Samuel Huckins http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-35 Samuel Huckins Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:55:50 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-35 Thanks for the handy tutorial! One correction: in line 4 of the second code block of the "The for Loop" section, you need to remove the colon after the raw_input is closed. As it stands, it throws a syntax error. Thanks for the handy tutorial! One correction: in line 4 of the second code block of the “The for Loop” section, you need to remove the colon after the raw_input is closed. As it stands, it throws a syntax error.

]]> By: Aleks http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-37 Aleks Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:49:16 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-37 Glad it helped! Glad it helped!

]]> By: James http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/comment-page-1#comment-34 James Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:00:01 +0000 http://metaleks.net/tutorials/python/loops-and-user-input/#comment-34 Good article, really helped me to grasp the basic concepts. It seems like to many tutorials try to throw you in "deep water" before you've learned to doggy paddle :\ Keep up the good work, and thanks! -Jim Good article, really helped me to grasp the basic concepts.
It seems like to many tutorials try to throw you in “deep water” before you’ve learned to doggy paddle :\
Keep up the good work, and thanks!
-Jim

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