How would I loop a certain thing only in Python?

Question

Made this example code:

a = input("Insert day: ")
a
if a == "saturday":
    print("Good Saturday!")
elif a == "sunday":
    print("Good Sunday!")
else:
    print("hi")

My goal is to "re-do" the whole thing when it's done so ask for input, wait the input, when input is entered then print, then again ask for input and so on.. So I added something to loop it:

a = input("Insert day: ")
count = 0
while (count < 1):
    a
    if a == "saturday":
        print("Good Saturday!")
    elif a == "sunday":
        print("Good Sunday!")
    else:
        print("hi")

The problem is that this new code loops/spams the print answer, I never really used loop before, as I said i'm trying to get it to ask "Insert day" after it printed the answer and so on, possibly with 1 or 2 seconds delay from print to asking input, how would I do this?

you can `import time` and add `time.sleep(2)` for it to pause the execution for 2 seconds. — static const, Aug 12 '19 at 19:08
You can wrap all the code with `while True:` and add a sleep — Nir Alfasi, Aug 12 '19 at 19:08
A while loop only loops the code indented in it, so without an input or delay of some kind it would just keep on going round as fast as it could... — Ed Ward, Aug 12 '19 at 19:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 12 '19 at 19:12

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To ask for user input again, simply place the first line into the loop as well:

while True:
    a = input("Insert day: ")
    if a == "saturday":
        print("Good Saturday!")
    elif a == "sunday":
        print("Good Sunday!")
    else:
        print("hi")

edited Aug 12 '19 at 19:12

Michael Kolber

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answered Aug 12 '19 at 19:10

kederrac

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '19 at 19:11

    count = 0
    while (count < 1):
         a = input("Insert day: ")
         if a == "saturday":
             print("Good Saturday!")
         elif a == "sunday":
             print("Good Sunday!")
         else:
             print("hi")

Because you are defining your variable outside the loop, it became infinite.

How would I loop a certain thing only in Python?

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