Learning Python 3, check user input is an integer, Python3

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Learning Python 3, check user input is an integer

The tutorial presumes you already have Python3 installed on your system. If you don't please visit my other tutorial, How to create a basic Python3 script in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions

When the user enters a number or character this is assigned to the variable number.

If the user enters a number, the number is displayed via the print statement. The break statement is used to terminate the current loop

If the user enters a character, a message is then displayed informing the user to an a number. The continue statement is used to return to the beginning of the while loop, and the user has to re-enter a number via the input command.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

while True:

    try:
        number = int(input('Enter a number '))
        print(number)
        break

    except ValueError:
        print("You entered a character. Please only enter numbers")
        continue