Question

I can’t get it to actually repeat the while loop.
I’ve tried having it register a true value, or make it continue or break out of the loop. But nothing works.

xvalue = int(input("Enter a test value to test if it works: "))

while xvalue >= Limit:
    print("\a\a\a")
else:
    continue
    xvalue = int(input("Updating Value: "))

Can someone suggest something?

I’ve also written it so that it says:

else:
     return True 

But that doesn’t work. (I get an error)I just need it to keep repeating the while loop until it becomes true on the first condition. And then rings.

Answer 1

There are a bunch of problems with your code, but there are a few big problems here.

First, the else in while...else doesn’t mean what you think it does. It’s not like in if...else. In while...else, the else block is executed if your while statement becomes False–note that that does not include if you break out of the loop or there’s an error. In your code, the else block would be executed when xvalue < Limit, since that’s the opposite of your Boolean expression for the while.

Second, because the else block is executed after the loop, putting continue in there doesn’t make any sense, since there’s no longer any loop to iterate over. Not only that, even if there were a loop continuing, the fact that you stuck continue before xvalue = int(input... means that the loop will be restarted before the user gets a chance to put in an updated value. You would need to put continue after the reassignment, and at that point, there’s no point to putting in the continue at all.

So basically, what you’re looking for is:

xvalue = int(input("Enter a test value to see if it works: "))

while xvalue >= Limit:
    print ("\a\a\a")
    xvalue = int(input("Please try another value: "))

Updated after OP comments:

xvalue = int(input("Enter a test value to see if it works: "))

while xvalue < Limit:                                     # Repeats until user gives a value above limit
    xvalue = int(input("Please try another value: "))
else:
    while True:                                           # Causes bell to ring infinitely
        print ("\a\a\a")