can someone tell me why this doesn't work please python 3

Gary M. Josack gary at byoteki.com
Wed Jan 14 10:02:06 EST 2009


Ben Kaplan wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:44 AM, "Gary M. Josack" <gary at byoteki.com> wrote:
>
>> garywood wrote:
>>> def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint="Yes or no, please!"):
>>>    while True:
>>>        password = input("enter something")
>>>        if password in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): return True
>>>        if password in ('n', 'no', 'nope'): return False
>>>        retries = retries - 1
>>>        if retries < 0:
>>>            raise IOError('refusenik user')
>>>        print(complaint)
>>> ---
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
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>>>
>> Well since you didn't give an error I'm going to assume your problems 
>> are as follows:
>> * Use raw_input() instead of input() # input evals the input received.
>> * pass prompt as the argument to raw_input so that your prompt gets 
>> set # might want to give prompt a default value
>> * password.lower() so Y, YE, YES, N, NO, NOPE also work for input
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>
> Did you miss the python 3 part? Raw_input was removed and input now 
> behaves like raw_input did in 2.x
Ah, yes. Subject got truncated on my little laptop screen. Either way, 
more information is needed to diagnose the problem.



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