[Tutor] Please critique my Fraq.py

[Dick Moores]

At 02:44 7/25/2004, Brian van den Broek wrote:
>>""
>>At two points in the inner loop I've got a break. But I need another at 
>>the end of the outer loop to get out smoothly.
>>Thanks,
>>Dick Moores
>
>Hi Dick,
>
>I haven't followed your thread closely so I don't recall your program. 
>Thus, it might not meet your definition of "smooth" in the case at hand, 
>but have you tried sys.exit() ?

Brian,

Yes! I modified that silly test/game script to:

import sys
"""
print "This is an appropriate response test."
print "Enter q or x to give up."
while True:
     while True:
         answer = raw_input("How are you today: ")
         if answer == "x":
             print "Give up? O.K., you can try again tomorrow."
             sys.exit()
         elif answer != "Fine, thank you. And you?":
             print "C'mon. That's dumb. Try again."
         else:
             print "Congratulations! You passed the test!"
             sys.exit()
"""

Until yesterday, when tutors taught me the wonders of the Win XP command 
line, I was testing scripts only on IDLE. On IDLE, sys.exit() employed as 
above gets a big red

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:/Python23/DumbTest2.py", line 10, in -toplevel-
     sys.exit()
SystemExit

Executing via the command line gets a smooth quit.

This is the second time in a couple of weeks that IDLE has failed to 
execute code correctly. The first was when I was trying to use 
msvcrt.getch().

Whew! Guess I should stick just with the command line for execution of 
scripts from now on.

Thanks,

Dick