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Python

Posted by ethanwright
ethanwright
4,267 Points

Python while loop not working?

Im having trouble with this code

email = input("what email would you like to use?:\n")

print("Email accepted")


name = input("\nWhat user name would you like to use?:\n")
print("User name accepted.")


Pass = input("\nWhat password would you like to use?:\n")
print("Password accepted. ")


login = input("\n1.log in   2.Username/password recovery:\n")

if login != "1" or "2":
    print("test")


if login == "2":
    recovery = input("\nplease enter your email to recover your username/password:\n")
    while recovery != email:
        print("incorrect email")
        recovery = input("\nplease enter your email to recover your username/password:\n")
    if recovery == email:
        print("\n"+name+"\n"+Pass)
        username_login = input("\nUser name:\n")
        password_logn = input("\nPassword:\n")

if login == "1":
     print("\n\t<log in>")
     username_login = input("\nUser name:\n")
     password_logn = input("\nPassword:\n")

     print("\n\t<LOGGED IN>")

specificly this part

if login != 1 or 2:
    print("test")

when i try and input a number or letter that is not 1 or 2 it prints test which is what i want but whe i input 1 or 2 it still prints test with the code 1 or 2 is meant to run. it's kind of hard to explain so it's probaly best if you run it fr yourself. If the lovely people ofthe Treehouse forum could help me with this that would be great :)

2 Answers

Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points

Hi Ethan

Your current if statement isn't quite formatted properly but aside from that because the answer provided can not be equal to 1 and 2 one of the conditions will always evaluate to true and run the code.

If you change your if statement to read as below I think it should behave as expected.

if login != 1 and login != 2:
    ...

Hope it helps!

Stephen

ethanwright
ethanwright
4,267 Points

Thanks that works like a charm

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Python's spoken language structure (using things like and and or and in) is great until it's not.