Question

Good day!

Today I was writing a small script with Python 3.2.2, and this simple piece of the code
decided to give me trouble.

def main():
    yn = ""
    #...
    while True:
        #...
        yn = input( "---> " )
        if yn.lower() != "y":
            break

Now, it should be pretty obvious what this code does however when I run it in IDLE on
Windows 7 it works perfectly fine, alternatively when I double click on the script’s icon
on my Desktop and open it, it does not matter weather or not I enter “y” it closes, of
course this is an easy fix by
writing:

if yn.lower() == "n":
   #...

which is what I did, however I was wondering what the cause of this could be?

Answer 1

It works for me on OSX (Python 3.2.2):

yn = ""
while True:
    yn = input( "---> " )
    if yn.lower() != "y":
      break


pu@pumbair:~$ python3.2 test.py 
---> y
---> y
---> Y
---> Y
---> 
pu@pumbair:~$ python3.2 test.py 
---> n
pu@pumbair:~$ 

What executable is associated with the .py extension?