newb Q
Steffen Ries
steffen.ries at sympatico.ca
Tue Jul 25 07:48:21 EDT 2000
Toy <gee308 at mediaone.net> writes:
> How do you make a section of code repeat X times?
> say I want someone to quess something, but they put it in wrong(i.e.
> nums instead of letters) then after X tries, the prog quits out?
>
repeat=X
while repeat>0:
repeat = repeat-1
# ask your question
if answer_is_ok:
break
else:
raise "Did not get an answer"
instead/additional to the else-clause you can check the value of
"repeat" after the loop:
if repeat <= 0:
# no valid answer given...
hth,
/steffen
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