[Tutor] figured it out

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 00:21 2004-04-23 -0400, Simonjthecat at aol.com wrote:
>Ok... with a little trial and error I figured it out by myself (yay!  this 
>is my first working program!)  I'll go ahead and put what I came up 
>w/....  Is this the most efficient way?  It seemed kinda weird to define 
>shape as the same thing twice but it works.
>Here it is.
>
>import sys #for exit command
>shape = raw_input("Which shape[1,2,3,quit]? ")
>
>while shape != 'quit':

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>    shape = raw_input("Which shape[1,2,3,quit]? ")

A common Python idiom is to do it like this:

while True:
     shape = raw_input("Which shape[1,2,3,quit]? ")
      if shape == 'quit':
         break
     ...rest of the code...



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