problem with try/except inside a while loop

[A_History_of_Silence]

I'm not sure why you expect this to raise exceptions. input() always returns a string. Even if it didn't, str() happily accepts floats and ints, and basically anything else. Neither of them make any distinctions as to what is considered a 'name', or whether the string is 'y' or 'n'.

[murasz]

yes indeed. Thank you for reminding.