building a small calculator

[Simon Brunning]

On 20 Apr 2005 05:18:17 -0700, aleksander.helgaker at gmail.com
<aleksander.helgaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now once the user has select a shape and typed in the lengths required,
> the result is printed and the program quits. What I want to do is make
> the program display the result and then make it wait for the user to
> press return (or something like that) after which the screen will be
> cleared and they'll be back at the main menu.

raw_input('Hit Enter to continue...')

> Also I would like to add option nr 4 to the menu and make that the quit
> command, but what command does python have to stop a program? I tried
> end but that did not work.

sys.exit()

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Simon B,
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