Re: breaking a loop

2005-08-13 Thread Mosti El
I think u need break before exit() so if u want break from any loop just add break "el chupacabra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, I'm just learning Pythonthanks in advance... > > Do you get out of this loop? > > Problem: When I type 'exit' (no quotes) the pr

Re: breaking a loop

2005-08-11 Thread infidel
> Desired behavior: when I type 'exit' the program should quit. def search(): user_input = '' while True: user_input = raw_input('Search for: ') if user_input == 'exit': break print 'processing', user_input Note that putting user input directly into SQL statements

Re: breaking a loop

2005-08-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What you do is asking for a string, and then embed the result in '%' characters, as this is what you do in the sql statement (btw: where is the cursor defined?) It is probably a better idea to construct the sql statement with the direct result of raw_input, instead of format it straight away - see

breaking a loop

2005-08-11 Thread el chupacabra
Hi, I'm just learning Pythonthanks in advance... Do you get out of this loop? Problem: When I type 'exit' (no quotes) the program doesn't quit the loop...it actually attemps to find entries that containt the 'exit' string. Desired behavior: when I type 'exit' the program should quit. def s