Discussion regarding the book 'A Byte of Python'

[Maggical1 AT netscape.net]

Thanks Juan and others. I must have had gremlins doing their thing yesterday, 
because as you've stated, it works fine.

Sorry to waste fellow pythonians time.

Gary

"沈洁元" <orion_val AT 163.com> wrote:

>Gary,
>    I've tested your example.  And it works well as it expects.  If I input 
> 'he' -- a less-than-3-characters string, 'first statement...' and 'second 
> statement...' is printed, and 'Input is of sufficient length' won't be 
> output.
>
>                                                      Juan Shen
>
>> 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
>> 
>> Gary
>

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