[Tutor] Beginners question

[Alex Kleider]

On 2020-03-30 14:11, Michael Langdon wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> I have been tasked to use a while loop to repeatedly ask the user to 
> enter
> a word.
> 
> If the word is not 'quit', then add it to the list of words collected 
> so
> far, in lower case. Then ask for the next word and so on.
> 
> If they enter 'quit', do not add this word to the list, but print the 
> list
> of words collected so far and exit the program.
> 
> My input.
> a = input("Enter a word: ")
> sentence = sentence , a
> while a != ("quit"):
> sentence = sentence , a
> a = input("Enter a word: ")
> print(sentence)
> 
> My output.
> Enter a word: orange
> ((), 'orange')
> Enter a word: apple
> (((), 'orange'), 'orange')
> Enter a word: quit
> ((((), 'orange'), 'orange'), 'apple')
> 
> 
> Can you help me with this?

Do you know about the key word 'break'?

use it as follows:

while True:
   # get input
   # if input means quit
        break   # break out of the loop
   # proceed with whatever you want to do


Another key word worth knowing about is 'continue'