Is there any way to access the result something never assigned?

Question

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

Say I wanted to see what number was input. Is there an indirect way to get at that?

EDIT Im probably not being very clear lol. . I know that in the debugger, you can step through and see what number gets input. Is there maybe a memory hack or something like it that lets you get at 'old' data after the fact?

Answer 1

Nope - you have to assign it... Your example could be written using the two-argument style iter 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 this. You don't have to assign, but just make up 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