try block inside while statement

Question

I\'m just starting out with Python 2.7 and I don\'t understand why something is happening:

In the following code, an embellished version of an example from the pytho

Answer 1

Not a python guy, but how about this

while True:
    try:
        x = int(raw_input("Please enter a number: "))
        print 'Thanks,', x, 'is indeed an integer'
    except ValueError:
        print "Oops!  That was not a valid number. Try again..."
    finally:
        print 'all done, bye'