# Program to read in a positive number
# and complain when the input isn't that
#
# Matt Bishop, ECS 10, Fall 2012

#
# the program itself
#
def main():
    #
    # loop to show how to break out of an infinite loop
    #    
    while True:

        # read in a positive integer
        # handle any exceptions (relatively) intelligently
        try:
            n = int(input("type a number: "))
        # exception: bad value (string, invalid number)
        except ValueError:
            print("bad value -- try again!")        # give it another chance
            continue
        # exception: end of file
        except EOFError:
            print("end of file -- bye!")            # quit
            break
        # some other exception
        except:
            print("Unknown exception -- ignoring!") # ignore the problem
            continue
        # no exception -- print the number
        if n <= 0:
            print("You typed a non-positive number")
        else:
            print("Read", n)
        print("\n-----------------------\n")

main()