[Tutor] email validation

[Alan Gauld]

On 03/08/15 04:02, Quiles, Stephanie wrote:
> ok so i made a few corrections based on what you stated and moved the name variable out of the loop. however, now its doing the same thing with alternate email.

So you need a while loop for every element you want to validate.


while True:   # overall loop per user
       while True:   # get user details
            get and check name
       while True:     # email 1
            get and check email1
       while True:     # email2
            get and check email2


This is obviously repetitive so you could write a function:

get_and_check(prompt,check):
         while True:
               val = input(prompt)
               if check(val) : return val

but since it relies on you passing in a function object (check)
that may be too advanced for you at this stage.


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