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  1. def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no, please!'):
  2.     while True:
  3.         ok = input(prompt)
  4.         if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'):
  5.             return True
  6.         if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'):
  7.             return False
  8.         retries = retries - 1
  9.         if retries < 0:
  10.             raise IOError('refusenik user')
  11.         print(complaint)
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 5852KB
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language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
created:
14 years ago
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