How do I restart a program based on user input

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I m trying to restart a program using an if-test based on the input from the user   This code doesn t work  but it s approximately what I m after   answer   str raw input  Run again   y n        if answer     n      print  Goodbye     break elif answer     y       restart program    else     print  Invalid input     What I m trying to do is    if you answer y - the program restarts from the top if you answer n - the program ends  that part works  if you enter anything else  it should print  invalid input  please enter y or n     or something  and ask you again for new input    I got really close to a solution with a  while true  loop  but the program either just restarts no matter what you press  except n   or it quits no matter what you press  except y   Any ideas

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This line will unconditionally restart the running program from scratch:

os.execl(sys.executable, sys.executable, *sys.argv)

One of its advantage compared to the remaining suggestions so far is that the program itself will be read again.

This can be useful if, for example, you are modifying its code in another window.

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Using one while loop   In  1   start   1                  while True              if start    1                          do run   raw input  Restart   y n                    if do run     y                       pass                 elif do run     n                       break                 else                       print  Invalid input                      continue                      print  Doing stuff                          if start    1                  start   0                  Doing stuff     Restart   y n y Doing stuff     Restart   y n f Invalid input  Restart   y n n  In  2

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I create this program   import pygame  sys  time  random  easygui  skier images     skier down png    skier right1 png                    skier right2 png    skier left2 png                    skier left1 png    class SkierClass pygame sprite Sprite       def   init   self           pygame sprite Sprite   init   self          self image   pygame image load  skier down png           self rect   self image get rect           self rect center    320  100          self angle   0      def turn self  direction           self angle   self angle   direction         if self angle  lt  -2   self angle   -2         if self angle  gt   2   self angle    2         center   self rect center         self image   pygame image load skier images self angle           self rect   self image get rect           self rect center   center         speed    self angle  6 - abs self angle    2          return speed      def move self speed           self rect centerx   self rect centerx   speed 0          if self rect centerx  lt  20   self rect centerx   20         if self rect centerx  gt  620  self rect centerx   620  class ObstacleClass pygame sprite Sprite       def   init   self image file  location  type           pygame sprite Sprite   init   self          self image file   image file         self image   pygame image load image file          self location   location         self rect   self image get rect           self rect center   location         self type   type         self passed   False      def scroll self  t ptr           self rect centery   self location 1  - t ptr  def create map start  end       obstacles   pygame sprite Group       gates   pygame sprite Group       locations          for i in range 10           row   random randint start  end          col   random randint 0  9          location    col   64   20  row   64   20          if not  location in locations                locations append location              type   random choice   tree    flag                if type     tree   img    skier tree png              elif type     flag   img    skier flag png              obstacle   ObstacleClass img  location  type              obstacles add obstacle      return obstacles  def animate        screen fill  255 255 255       pygame display update obstacles draw screen       screen blit skier image  skier rect      screen blit score text   10 10       pygame display flip    def updateObstacleGroup map0  map1       obstacles   pygame sprite Group       for ob in map0   obstacles add ob      for ob in map1   obstacles add ob      return obstacles  pygame init   screen   pygame display set mode  640 640   clock   pygame time Clock   skier   SkierClass   speed    0  6  map position   0 points   0 map0   create map 20  29  map1   create map 10  19  activeMap   0 obstacles   updateObstacleGroup map0  map1  font   pygame font Font None  50   a   True  while a      clock tick 30      for event in pygame event get            if event type    pygame QUIT  sys exit           if event type    pygame KEYDOWN              if event key    pygame K LEFT                  speed   skier turn -1              elif event key    pygame K RIGHT                  speed   skier turn 1      skier move speed      map position    speed 1       if map position  gt   640 and activeMap    0          activeMap   1         map0   create map 20  29          obstacles   updateObstacleGroup map0  map1      if map position  gt  1280 and activeMap    1          activeMap   0         for ob in map0              ob location 1    ob location 1  - 1280         map position   map position - 1280         map1   create map 10  19          obstacles   updateObstacleGroup map0  map1      for obstacle in obstacles          obstacle scroll map position       hit   pygame sprite spritecollide skier  obstacles  False      if hit          if hit 0  type     tree  and not hit 0  passed              skier image   pygame image load  skier crash png               easygui msgbox msg  OOPS                  choice   easygui buttonbox  Do you want to play again     Play     Yes    No                if choice     Yes                   skier   SkierClass                   speed    0  6                  map position   0                 points   0                 map0   create map 20  29                  map1   create map 10  19                  activeMap   0                 obstacles   updateObstacleGroup map0  map1              elif choice     No                   a   False                 quit           elif hit 0  type     flag  and not hit 0  passed              points    10             obstacles remove hit 0        score text   font render  Score      str points   1   0  0  0       animate     Link  https   docs google com document d 1U8JhesA6zFE5cG1Ia3OsTL6dseq0Vwv vuIr3kqJm4c edit

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Here s a fun way to do it with a decorator   def restartable func       def wrapper  args   kwargs           answer    y          while answer     y               func  args   kwargs              while True                  answer   raw input  Restart   y n                    if answer in   y   n                        break                 else                      print  invalid answer      return wrapper   restartable def main        print  foo   main     Ultimately  I think you need 2 while loops   You need one loop bracketing the portion which prompts for the answer so that you can prompt again if the user gives bad input   You need a second which will check that the current answer is  y  and keep running the code until the answer isn t  y

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You can do this simply with a function  For example   def script          program code here        restart   raw input  Would you like to restart this program        if restart     yes  or restart     y           script       if restart     n  or restart     no           print  Script terminating  Goodbye   script     Of course you can change a lot of things here  What is said  what the script will accept as a valid input  the variable and function names  You can simply nest the entire program in a user-defined function  Of course you must give everything inside an extra indent  and have it restart at anytime using this line of code  myfunctionname    More on this here

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Try this  while True        main program     while True          answer   str input  Run again   y n               if answer in   y    n                break         print  quot invalid input  quot       if answer     y           continue     else          print  quot Goodbye quot           break  The inner while loop loops until the input is either  y  or  n   If the input is  y   the while loop starts again  continue keyword skips the remaining code and goes straight to the next iteration   If the input is  n   the program ends

[python] How do I restart a program based on user input?

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