how to finish a while loop...

[rynt]

Wouldn't hurt to send an email or message, along with the code, to
Fabio Zdronzy, the maintainer of PyDev explaining what happened.
He'll probably see this thread, but then again, maybe not.

Ruben


On Feb 19, 5:35 pm, icarus <rsa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To the original poster.... what environment are you running this in?
>
>             Linux.  Xubuntu if that matters.
>
> > When I put your program in notepad and run it from the windows command
> > prompt it works.
>
>             yeah yeah...same here.
> After I got the tip that it actually worked, I went into the eclipse
> directory where the program lives, ran it there from the shell, and it
> worked.  Meaning, I didn't modify anything on the file itself (by
> accident or on purpose).
>
> > But when I paste it into eclipse and run it
> > eclipse's console, it doesn't work because answer seems to have a
> > stray '\r' carriage return (CR) and therefore the comparison to 'no'
> > fails.
>
>           I get no 'compile' errors there.
>           I get regular execution but it just doesn't change the
> condition to False at the very end.
>           Therefore it loops forever.  I used other values like zeros
> and ones to make sure I could print the values when the interpreter
> got down to that line.  Everything checked.  Just didn't change the
> condition on the main loop.