Novice Issue

[John Gordon]

In <0fa050c1-3a00-4c17-9fa6-b79a22485c7a at googlegroups.com> Bradley Wright <bradley.wright.biz at gmail.com> writes:

> while raw_input != "quit" or "q":

Others have pointed out flaws in this statement.  However, even if you
had written the loop the 'correct' way:

    user_input = raw_input()
    while user_input != "quit" or user_input != "q":

There is still a logic bug.  This loop will execute forever, because no
matter what the user enters, it will be unequal to "q" or unequal to "quit".
Use 'and' instead of 'or'.

Of course in this specific situation, as others have suggested, 'in' is
better still.

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