trying to add a section, so that users can input state names

Question

I'm trying to add a section, so that the user can input states to the list

<p>
state_names=["Alabama","California","Oregon","Laknath"]
vowels=list('aeiou')
output=[]

while True:
    state_names.append(input('>'))
    continue 
    for state in state_names:
        state_list=list(state.lower())

        for vowel in vowels:
            while True:
                try:
                    state_list.remove(vowel)
                except:
                    break

        output.append(''.join(state_list).capitalize()) 

print(output)

<\p>,,,

Answer 1 · 2016-05-18T07:37:54Z

May 18, 2016 7:37am

Your while True and continue here creates an infite loop. While True will always be True, and continue will always take you back to the start of your loop, avoiding all the code you've entered below:

<p>
while True:
    state_names.append(input('>'))
    continue
</p>

I can think of three ways you could do this, but I'll only show you one. First, you can add a count that is reduced each time you go through the loop (i.e. the user must enter excatly 5 states). Second, you could simply remove the loop so the user only adds 1 state. Third, you could try this:

<p>
while True:
    temp_string = (input("Enter a state, or 'D' when done: "))
    if temp_string[0].lower() == "d":
        break
    state_names.append(temp_string)
</p>

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