[Tutor] How to exit this loop in the interpreter

[Gergely Lőrincz]

I'm new to python, is schooling a python-developer thing? Whether I ask for
help at forums, IRC or here, someone schools me. Should I stick with Java?

On 3 May 2012 17:44, Gergely Lőrincz <alkopop79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I say old bean, did not get an answer and wasn't sure if it went through.
> Sorry me for asking help with python in a python mailing list!
>
>
> On 3 May 2012 17:30, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 03/05/2012 16:52, Gergely Lőrincz wrote:
>>
>>> Dear folks,
>>>
>>> I've been struggling to set up python on snow leopard, mac os x.
>>> Stupidly I
>>> downloaded and installed python 3.2 and since then the 'python' command
>>> in
>>> the terminal yields 'no command found'. In addition when opening the
>>> terminal I get this error message on the top of the window:
>>> http://pastebin.com/QS3gpkjK
>>>
>>> For some reason the installation littered my Android SDK folder with
>>> main.py and other kind of python files. Don't ask me why, it's beyond
>>> me. I
>>> removed the offending files manually and deleted the python 3.2.2 folder
>>> form /Library/Frameworks/python.**framework/versions folder. After
>>> rebooting
>>> the terminal still complains about those files. I wonder how can I fix
>>> it?
>>> I would love to learn to use python! Your help would be appreciated!
>>>
>>> On 3 May 2012 15:22, Simon Yan<simonyan at fedoraproject.org**>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM,<spawgi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have encountered the following scenario.
>>>>> Here is the code - on IDLE on Windows XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> *>>>  while True:
>>>>>
>>>>>     try:
>>>>>         number = raw_input("enter number - ")
>>>>>         print number * number
>>>>>     except ValueError:
>>>>>         print "invalid number"
>>>>>     except:
>>>>>         print "unspecified exception"
>>>>>     else:
>>>>>         print "other conditions"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> enter number - 3
>>>>> unspecified exception
>>>>> *
>>>>> What I noticed is that no matter, what input I give, I cannot exit this
>>>>> loop. I have tried control-C, control-D etc. all the keys. So how can I
>>>>> exit from this loop?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> If you simply want to stop after an exception was caught, you can insert
>>>> "break" after each print line. Like below:
>>>>  >>>  while True:
>>>>     try:
>>>>         number = raw_input("enter number - ")
>>>>         print number * number
>>>>     except ValueError:
>>>>         print "invalid number"
>>>>         break
>>>>     except:
>>>>         print "unspecified exception"
>>>>         break
>>>>     else:
>>>>         print "other conditions"
>>>>         break
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Sumod
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>> We can do it and do it better.
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>>>> YeeYaa (Simon Yan)
>>>>
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>>
>> I say old chap, it's simply not cricket to hijack a thread, particularly
>> when you've already asked your question some 4 hours and 38 minutes earlier.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence.
>>
>>
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