do you guys help newbies??

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Wojtek Walczak [SMTP:gminick at hacker.pl]
> Dnia Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:53:20 GMT, Robin Munn napisał(a):
> > You could also do this in one step, like:
> >     gallonsPerTank = int(raw_input("Enter how many gallons..."))
> It of course works, but there's a large amount of situations to think of.
> 
> ---
> import sys
> try:
>    while 1:
>       a = raw_input("Put a digit here: ")
>       if not a.isdigit():
>          a = raw_input("Put a digit here: ")
>       else:
>          a = int(a)
>          break
> except:
>    print sys.exc_info()[1]
>    sys.exit()
> 
> print a
> ---
> 
> Any ideas to make it more reliable ?
 
See <http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue83/evans.html>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk





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