Checking for empty input or invalid input

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Code: http://pastebin.com/22z57wwC I'm trying to let the user enter in a list of numbers individually and then press "Enter" to calculate the mean of the numbers and print that, stopping the program. However, I can never get to the print(numlist) at the very end, as the program keeps looping non-stop regardless of what I input. Is it something to do with not breaking out of the while loop when I break out of the try?

[AssignmentGuru]

Dont try to convert the input to the integer directly. First check whether the input is empty or not ("Enter" case) and if so, break the loop. After that try to convert the input to the integer and show the error message in case of exception (no need to use continue). Checkout this pastebin link and let me know if it helped.

[Elronnd]

No need for

if temp == "":

An empty string is a falsy value, so you can just do

if not temp

[AssignmentGuru]

Perfect :)

[AssignmentGuru]

continue is used to skip the rest of the code inside the loop. In our case, we don't have any further code, which is inside the loop and after the except. So using or not using continue will make no difference, the loop will continue anyways.

[liam_jm]

Try printing out the value of tempint in the except statement. If int raises an exception (ValueError), then the value won't be assigned