[Tutor] A simple "if" and "elif" problem

[Alan Gauld]

On 05/05/12 19:01, Santosh Kumar wrote:
>
>>>> x = int(input("Please enter an integer: "))
> Please enter an integer: 42

> Now I want to add a filter in this script, I want when a user enter a
> string here it give a warning "Please enter a number like 0 or 2".

What happens if the user does not enter a valid integer
at the moment? You should get an error message?

That error message will provide the name of a particular type of Error.
Python lets you catch errors and handle them. You will find out how to 
do that later in your tutorial.

Once you catch the error you will likely want to loop around and ask for 
more input. You will need a loop - probably a while loop - to do that.

So in pseudo code you will wind up with something like:

while True:
   try:
     read the input and convert to int
     break out of the loop
   except when there is an error:
     print a message and go round the loop again

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