Question

Can anyone help as to why my while loop isn’t working?
It’s forcing the user to select either 1, 2 or 3, and not letting them proceed, however regardless of whether you put in 1, 2 or 3, it always says that you’ve entered a different number, and so says “Please choose level 1, 2 or 3”

level = input("Enter your level by typing 1, 2 or 3\n")
int(level)

levelSelect = 1
while levelSelect == 1:
   if level != int(1) or level != 2 or level != 3:
      level = input("Please choose level 1, 2 or 3\n")
      int(level)
   else:
      print("You have selected level", level)
      levelSelect = 0

Answer 1

The line int(level) doesn’t do what you think it does. It creates an integer from a string and returns it. It does not operate in place. Because of this, when you get to your if statement, you’re comparing a string to integers which is always unequal.

You probably want:

level = int(level)

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As a side note, the condition could also be written using the in operator:

if level in (1,2,3):
   print("level is ...")
else:
   print("pick again!")
   #other code ...