[Tutor] while with function

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 fleet@teachout.org wrote:

> Sigh.  If one enters a non-zero number first, the tries again WITHOUT
> reinitializing y, it fails (because y no longer equals 0).  (Where's the
> lid to my hole?!)

Hi Fleet,



> > >  My assumption is that if the number I enter in response to getnum()
> > > is 0, y should be printed, and getnum() should be invoked again.
> > > Any number other than 0 should cause the loop to quit.


By the way, here's another way to write your loop:

###
while 1:
    y = getnum()
    print y
    if y: break
###


Good luck!