Is there a way to access what is never assigned?

Question

while int(input("choose a number")) != 5 : 

Let's say I wanted to see which number was entered. Is there an indirect way to get from this?

EDIT Im probably not very clear., I know that in the debugger you can view and find out what number is being entered. Maybe a memory hack or something like that that allows you to get the "old" data after the fact?

Answer 1

No - you need to assign it ... Your example can be written using the iter two argument style, though:

 for number in iter(lambda: int(input('Choose a number: ')), 5): print number # prints it if it wasn't 5... 

Answer 2

Do something like that. You do not need to assign, but simply compose an additional function and use it every time you need to do this. Hope this helps.

 def printAndReturn(x): print(x); return(x) while printAndReturn(int(input("choose a number"))) != 5 : # do your stuff 

Answer 3

No, there is no access to this input as you did, you would have to store it. Here is an example of a hello world level

 val = int(input("choose a number")) while val != 5 : val = int(input("choose a number")) 

Answer 4

A semi-related hacker solution that technically answers your question, but not real:

If you run this in a python interactive environment (thing with >>> ) you can do it

 >>>while int(input("choose a number: ")) != 5 : ... print _ ... choose a number: 2 2 choose a number: 5 >>> 

Please note that this only works in an interactive environment.