"Temporary" Variable

[Rick Zantow]

darthbob88 at gmail.com wrote in news:1140725159.143882.202630
@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> 
> 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?