Ask again if wrong guess with While.

[EduPy]

Hi

I'm learning python and exercising the loop function with while.

I would like to make a code that ask me to input the name again if it's wrong.. with no limit of tries.

name = "Ed"
guess = input("what is the name")

while guess == name:
    print(guess, 'is the right name')
    break
if guess != name:
    print(input(guess))

Yoriz write Oct-21-2021, 04:46 PM:
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[Yoriz]

You need to get the users input and check if the input is correct inside of the while loop and only break from the loop when it is correct.

[EduPy]

Oh Thank you, i got it work now.
Is there another way to do it more simple than

name = "Ed"

while name:
    guess = input("what is the name")
    if guess != name:
     print(guess, 'is wrong')
    else: 
     print(guess, "is the right name")
     break

[Yoriz]

while name will always be True so you may as well just use while True.
Indentation should be 4 spaces.
You can use f strings.
if name is a constant use capital letters otherwise lowercase is ok.

NAME = "Ed"

while True:
    guess = input("what is the name")
    if guess != NAME:
        print(f"{guess} is wrong")
    else:
        print(f"{guess} is the right name")
        break

[menator01]

If you would like to check against a list of names:

#! /usr/bin/env python3.9

names = ['john', 'mary', 'bob', 'sue']

while True:
    name = input('What is the name: ').lower()
    if name not in names:
        print('That name is not in the list.')
        continue
    else:
        print('That name is in the list.')
        break

Output:
What is the name: charlie
That name is not in the list.
What is the name: bob
That name is in the list.