[Tutor] How to exit this loop in the interpreter

[Gergely Lőrincz]

I say old bean, did not get an answer and wasn't sure if it went through.
Sorry me for asking help with python in a python mailing list!

On 3 May 2012 17:30, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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>>> YeeYaa (Simon Yan)
>>>
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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.
>
>
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