Problem I have with a while loop/boolean/or

[Steve Holden]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Bart Willems wrote:
>> ...
>> I always try to stay away from 'negative' operators if possible, to 
>> improve readability:
>>
>> while True:
>>    hint = raw_input('\nAre you stuck? y/n: ').lower()
>>    if hint = 'y' or hint = 'n':
>>       break
>>    else:
>>       print 'Please answer yes or no'
> 
> And if you really want to see what is going wrong, replace that last by:
>          print 'Please answer yes or no (not %r):' % hint
> 
Better still, use

   Please answer y or n

since those are the values you are testing for ...

regards
  Steve
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