Question

Purpose is to put diff ages in, if -1 is entered then the program stops, my totaling statement is wrong. Will Someone please help me fix it.

Totalage = 0

age = 0

print "Enter you Family member's ages!"

age = raw_input ("Enter an age ")

while age != -1:
    age = input("Enter an age ")
    Totalage = Totalage + age

print Totalage

Answer 1

There are two problems with your code

1. You are skipping your first input, and you are not adding it to your total
2. You are adding the last terminator input -1 to your Total.

Just Change the order of the statements in your while loop

age = int(raw_input ("Enter an age "))
while age != -1:    
    Totalage = Totalage + age
    age = int(input("Enter an age "))

Also note, raw_input, in general returns a string, which needs to be converted to int before you may want to calculate on it.

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Itertools Provide some wonderful tools, and for fun, I tried coding the above while loop with itertools.takewhile

>>> from itertools import count, takewhile
>>> sum(takewhile(lambda x: x != -1,
          (int(raw_input("Enter an age ")) for e in count())))
Enter an age 20
Enter an age 30
Enter an age 40
Enter an age 50
Enter an age -1
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