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sntovas
sntovas

Reputation: 27

Why is loop not stopping using 'continue'?

So I am new at programming and I was writing some practice code (Python 3.6):

while True:
    print('Hello Steve, what is the password?')
    password = input()
    if password != '1234':
        continue
    print('Access granted')

The problem i'm having is that even though I am typing the correct password, the loop continues.Can you help me figure out what I did wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 523

Answers (4)

Ghufran Khan
Ghufran Khan

Reputation: 11

Try using break statement instead of continue. Your code should look like this

while True:
    print('Hello Steve, what is the password?')
    password = input()
    if password == '1234':
        print('Access granted')
        break

Upvotes: 0

Mahi
Mahi

Reputation: 21883

continue will skip the rest of the current round in the loop, and then the loop will start over:

>>> i = 0
>>> while i < 5:
...     i += 1
...     if i == 3:
...         continue
...     print(i)
...
1
2
4
5
>>>

What you're looking for is the break keyword, which will exit the loop completely:

>>> i = 0
>>> while i < 5:
...     i += 1
...     if i == 3:
...         break
...     print(i)
...
1
2
>>>

However, notice that break will jump out of the loop completely, and your print('Access granted') is after that. So what you want is something like this:

while True:
    print('Hello Steve, what is the password?')
    password = input()
    if password == '1234':
        print('Access granted')
        break

Or use the while loop's condition, although this requires repeating the password = ...:

password = input('Hello Steve, what is the password?\n')
while password != '1234':
    password = input('Hello Steve, what is the password?\n')
print('Access granted')

Upvotes: 8

gunslinger
gunslinger

Reputation: 118

First of all you're using the wrong logical operator for equality comparison, this: != is for not equals; and this == is for equals.

Second, as other have already stated, you should use break instead of continue.

I would do something like this:

print('Hello Steve!')
while True:
    password = input('Type your password: ')
    if password == '1234':
        print('Access granted')
        break
    else:
        print('Wrong password, try again')

Upvotes: 0

Stack
Stack

Reputation: 4526

Change break instead of continue, should work.

Upvotes: 0

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