Discussion regarding the book 'A Byte of Python'

[Dave Pawson <davep AT dpawson.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:02 -0400, Maggical1 AT netscape.net wrote:
> In working thru the examples, there are 2 things I don't understand 
> regarding the continue example in chapter 6.
> 1. If I put print statements before the continue, no output is produced.
> Example:
> while True:
>     s = raw_input('Enter something : ')
>     if s == 'quit':
>         break
>     if len(s) < 3:
>         print 'first statement before continue'
>         print 'second statement before continue'
>         continue
>     print 'Input is of sufficient length'
> 2. As the example is shown, it doesn't matter what size string is input, 
> the script will always output "Input is of sufficent length", as long as 
> the string isn't quit.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help or comments in clarifying this for me

I guess it's called a bad example?

Agree, it needs changing.

regards DaveP