repetative user input

[the.anti.9]

I want to keep getting user input until the person says exit but I keep getting an error.

This is what i have:

while ((input = raw_input(":")) != "exit")
  ...

This is the error i get:

C:\Users\ryan>e:\images\scripts\mysql.py
  File "E:\images\scripts\mysql.py", line 5
    while ((input = raw_input(":")) != "exit")
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What should I do to fix this?

[v0id]

user_input = ""
while user_input != "exit":
    user_input = raw_input(":")
    # ...

I changed your variable input to user_input, as a standard function with the name input already exists in Python.

[varon89]

Originally Posted by the.anti.9

while ((input = raw_input(":")) != "exit")
  ...

That's also not python syntax. In python, you can't set variables within conditional statements, nor do you put parentheses about the statement; it's just

while condition:
    more code