[Tutor] Suggestions for cleaner code

[Matt Richardson]

Hi all,
I'm starting to get the hang of this, but am looking for some criticism
to keep me on track.  One of the exercises in 'Core Python' is to create
a program that asks a user to select an operation to run, run the
program, then prompt for another operation until an escape command is
given.  After screwing around with it for a couple of days, here's what
I've got:

#!/sw/bin/python

print 'Choose one of the following: '
print '1  Greeting'
print '2  Discussion'
print '3  Question'
print '4  Farewell'

loop = 0
while (loop == 0):
    option = input('Option: ')
    if (1 <= option <= 3):
        if option == 1:
            print 'Hello'
        elif option == 2:
            print 'I should have paid more attention in math classes.'
        elif option == 3:
            print 'Why did I sleep through class?'
    else:
        print 'Farewell'
        loop = 1

I'm sure that there are better ways to do this, so I'd like to hear
them.

Thanks,
Matt


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Matt Richardson
Instructional Support Technician
Department of Art
CSU San Bernardino
marichar@csusb.edu