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List:       python-list
Subject:    Re: Program Error Help - Python 3.1
From:       Cameron Simpson <cs () zip ! com ! au>
Date:       2017-03-31 23:42:48
Message-ID: 20170331234248.GA59845 () cskk ! homeip ! net
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On 31Mar2017 16:12, 2019.cavanaughc@fpsedu.org <2019.cavanaughc@fpsedu.org> wrote:
> Hello I've been coding for about 1 or 2 months and i have encountered a problem \
> with a 'while' statement. It keeps looping even when the statement is false, here \
> is the code. The code is for a game that I'm making that resembles the Oregon \
> Trial.

Obviously the statement (well, "test") isn't false! Let's look:

[...]
> answer8 = ""
> while answer8 != ("1") or answer8 != ("2"):
[...]

Answer8 cannot be both "1" and also "2". Therefore, it will always _not_ be 
equal to at least one of "1" and "2". Therefore this test is always true.

You might better write this:

  while answer8 not in ("1", "2"):

or:

  while not( answer8 == "1" or answer8 == "2" ):

BTW, you need to decide whther you're working in strings or integers. input() 
in Python 3 returns a string. If you want to test against strings, fine.

However, if you want to test against numbers you need to convert the string to 
a number:

  answer8n = int(answer8)

and then test against answer8n.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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