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[Jp Calderone]

Ahh, your loop is nicer, but I liked the encapsulation of the, err, 
complex code required to determine if the input was an int... Yea, 
that's it.  The sys.stdin/print inconsistancy would be due to my
limited experiencing using python on the command line: I usually get
my input from sockets. :)


Jeff Shannon wrote:

> Jp Calderone wrote:
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>> [snip code]

> 
> Why do the int() conversion twice??  By rewriting your while loop as follows, you
> eliminate the need for your isInteger() function....
> 
> while 1:
>     x = sys.stdin.readline()
>     try:
>         return int(x)
>     except ValueError:
>         print "That is not an integer, please try again:",
> 
> I also wonder why you use sys.stdin.readline() in place of raw_input(), but you
> still use print and not sys.stdout.write() .... but I suppose that's just a
> trivial bit of inconsistency with only aesthetic significance....  :)
> 
> Jeff Shannon
> Technician/Programmer
> Credit International
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