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upendra
upendra

Reputation: 2189

multiple conditions with while loop in python

I am having problems including multiple statements with while loop in python. It works perfectly fine with single condition but when i include multiple conditions, the loop does not terminate. Am i doing something wrong here?

name = raw_input("Please enter a word in the sentence (enter . ! or ? to end.)")

final = list()

while (name != ".") or (name != "!") or (name != "?"):
    final.append(name)
    print "...currently:", " ".join(final)
    name = raw_input("Please enter a word in the sentence (enter . ! or ? to end.)")
print " ".join(final)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5312

Answers (2)

khelwood
khelwood

Reputation: 59096

This condition:

(name != ".") or (name != "!") or (name != "?")

is always true. It could only be false of all three subconditions were false, which would require that name were equal to "." and "!" and "?" simultaneously.

You mean:

while (name != ".") and (name != "!") and (name != "?"):

or, more simply,

while name not in { '.', '!', '?' }:

Upvotes: 2

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121306

You need to use and; you want the loop to continue if all conditions are met, not just one:

while (name != ".") and (name != "!") and (name != "?"):

You don't need the parentheses however.

Better would be to test for membership here:

while name not in '.!?':

Upvotes: 4

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