[Tutor] While loop issue, variable not equal to var or var

[Joseph Lee]

Hi Steve,

In your conditionals:

…

while message != 'q' or 'Q'/message != “q” or message != “Q”:
…

Python will only match the first variable. A better approach (which might be a good solution) would be capturing the exit commands in a list like this:

JL’s code:

while message not in [“q”, “Q”]:

               # blah, blah, your code…

# code end

Effectively, we’re testing if the command is a member of our exit commands list, and if it is, we’ll fall off the loop. Try this solution and see if it works for you.

Cheers,

Joseph

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