"Ian Egland" <echol...@gmail.com> wrote
I know that, should you want to get an int from the user, you use
int(input("Question!")). However, what if the user wasn't that savvy
and
didn't realize he/she HAD to enter a number?
It's considered good UI design to phrase the prompt in such a way as
to
help the user know what to input:
Thus:
x = int(input("Date(1-31): "))
or
s = int(input("Sex(m=1,f=2): "))
And then you have trhe responsibility to catch the error just in
case...
This is all part of "industrial standard" programming. You have to
make
your programs foolproof, while bearing in mind that nature keeps
buiding
bigger and better fools!
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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