Restarting a program

[Geoldr]

On May 22, 11:58 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 22, 1:38 pm, Geoldr <geo... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 22, 10:07 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On May 22, 10:59 am, Geoldr <geo... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hello all, I have written a simple program, and at the end of it,
> > > > instead of it closing I would like it to restart from the beggining.
> > > > Is there a way to do this? Put my code into a class function, or
> > > > something?
> > > > I guess I could do a while loop, but I think if there is a way to run
> > > > my code if it's in a class would be an easier option. I can't seem to
> > > > find many guides online but maybe I have not been looking in the right
> > > > places.
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> > > > Anybody have any ideas?
>
> > > Putting your code in a function or class is probably the way to go.
> > > When I was doing C++, we'd just use a while loop for simple stuff,
> > > though.
>
> > > It really shouldn't be all that hard to tell the code to call up the
> > > beginning of the program again.
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> > > Mike
>
> > That's what I am trying to figure out, but it doesn't seem to work. Do
> > you have any example code of classes/functions that work for you?
>
> No...but I through some concept code together that does the basics:
>
> <code>
>
> def repeater():
>
>     for i in range(10):
>         print i
>
> def main():
>     ret = 'Y'
>     while 1:
>         if ret.upper() == 'Y':
>             repeater()
>         else:
>             print 'Program finished...goodbye!'
>             break
>         ret = raw_input('Do you want to continue? (Y/N)')
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     main()
>
> </code>
>
> I found that using the while was the easiest to create on short
> notice. You could probably do it with recursion too, but I'm not
> especially good at that.
>
> Another idea is to have some kind of sentinel value that both
> functions can access and use it somehow to tell whether or not to
> repeat.
>
> Hope that helps you get going.
>
> Mike

Thank you, the "def" option works the best.