[Tutor] Help with Max Number and Min number script

[Alan Gauld]

On 17/09/16 00:08, Sharon Wallace wrote:
> inp = raw_input
> largest = None
> smallest = None
> 
> while True:
>     num = raw_input('Enter a number:  ')
>                 if num = 'done' : break
>                 print num
>                 try :
>                                 num = float(inp)
>                 except :
>                                 print 'Invalid input'
>                                 continue


While some whitespace is good, too much is as bad as none.
I've removed most of the blank lines but your indentation
levels are way too big. Also they are inconsistent and
in some places wrong. Indentation is crucially important
in Python.

Your code above should look like:

largest = None
smallest = None

while True:
    num = raw_input('Enter a number:  ')
    if num = 'done' :
        break
    print num
    try :
        num = float(inp)
    except :
        print 'Invalid input'
        continue

That uses the recommended 4 spaces indentation and makes it
much easier to see what is going on.


hth
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