[Tutor] How to exit this loop in the interpreter

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/05/2012 16:52, Gergely Lőrincz wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I've been struggling to set up python on snow leopard, mac os x. Stupidly I
> downloaded and installed python 3.2 and since then the 'python' command in
> the terminal yields 'no command found'. In addition when opening the
> terminal I get this error message on the top of the window:
> http://pastebin.com/QS3gpkjK
>
> For some reason the installation littered my Android SDK folder with
> main.py and other kind of python files. Don't ask me why, it's beyond me. I
> removed the offending files manually and deleted the python 3.2.2 folder
> form /Library/Frameworks/python.framework/versions folder. After rebooting
> the terminal still complains about those files. I wonder how can I fix it?
> I would love to learn to use python! Your help would be appreciated!
>
> On 3 May 2012 15:22, Simon Yan<simonyan at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM,<spawgi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have encountered the following scenario.
>>> Here is the code - on IDLE on Windows XP.
>>>
>>> *>>>  while True:
>>>      try:
>>>          number = raw_input("enter number - ")
>>>          print number * number
>>>      except ValueError:
>>>          print "invalid number"
>>>      except:
>>>          print "unspecified exception"
>>>      else:
>>>          print "other conditions"
>>>
>>>
>>> enter number - 3
>>> unspecified exception
>>> *
>>> What I noticed is that no matter, what input I give, I cannot exit this
>>> loop. I have tried control-C, control-D etc. all the keys. So how can I
>>> exit from this loop?
>>>
>>
>> If you simply want to stop after an exception was caught, you can insert
>> "break" after each print line. Like below:
>>   >>>  while True:
>>      try:
>>          number = raw_input("enter number - ")
>>          print number * number
>>      except ValueError:
>>          print "invalid number"
>>          break
>>      except:
>>          print "unspecified exception"
>>          break
>>      else:
>>          print "other conditions"
>>          break
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Sumod
>>>
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>>>
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>>
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>> Regards,
>> YeeYaa (Simon Yan)
>>
>> http://simonyan.fedorapeople.org/
>>
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I say old chap, it's simply not cricket to hijack a thread, particularly 
when you've already asked your question some 4 hours and 38 minutes earlier.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.