[Tutor] changing a variable with raw_input

[Mark Lawrence]

On 16/09/2015 18:14, richard kappler wrote:
> Nevermind, figured it out. it needed to be delay = 0 and delay = 0.5, not ==
>
> regards, Richard the virus ridden
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:03 PM, richard kappler <richkappler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Missing something obvious here, but down with the flu so I'm foggy and
>> just can't see it. I need to set a variable 'delay' to be used in
>> time.sleep(delay) later on in a script, based on user input. Something odd
>> is going on in setting the variable though.  Here's the snippet where I'm
>> trying to set the variable:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> delay = 7
>>
>> print("1 - Batch")
>> print("2 - 2 per second")
>> print("3 - Real Time")
>> choice = raw_input("Enter feed speed choice (then press enter): ")
>> choice = int(choice)
>>
>> if choice == 1:
>>      print "running as batch"
>>      delay == 0
>>
>> elif choice == 2:
>>      print "feeding 2 events per second"
>>      delay == 0.5
>>
>> elif choice == 3:
>>      print "feeding real time"
>>      delay = 'real time'
>>
>> else:
>>      print "choice not available"
>>      os._exit(0)
>>
>> print 'delay = ' + str(delay)
>>
>>
>> If I enter 1 or 2, I get delay = 7, if I enter 3, I get delay = real time.
>>
>> HUH???
>>
>> regards, Richard
>>
>> --
>>
>> All internal models of the world are approximate. ~ Sebastian Thrun
>>
>

I suggest that you learn a little about debugging problems like this, 
such as putting print statements into your code or actually stepping 
through your code in a debugger.

Would you also be kind enough not to top post here, it can make things 
very difficult to read in long threads, thanks.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence