I'm making a program to accomplish a certain python challenge. I created the program, and it basically does everything I need it to do, except it's got one weird quirk; it prints the output I want multiple times.
cmdname = input("Enter the name of your command.\n>")
print("Enter options one by one. If the option has an argument, put a * at the end of the option. When done entering options, enter \"q\".")
oplist = ""
oplist += cmdname + " "
def prgm():
global oplist
while 2 + 2 == 4:
user = input(">")
if user[0] == "-":
if "*" in user:
oplist += user[0:len(user) - 1] + " "
print("Now, enter the option's argument.")
user = input(">")
oplist += user[0:len(user) - 1] + " "
print("Option successfully added.")
prgm()
else:
oplist += user + " "
print("Option successfully added.")
prgm()
elif user == "q":
print("Enter the command argument.")
user = input(">")
oplist += user
else:
print("Error. You didn't enter an option.")
prgm()
break
print(oplist)
prgm()
The amount of times the output is printed seems to depend on how many options the user specifies, but I don't know why. In addition, when running the program in IDLE, if I manually print(oplist) after the function is finished, IDLE prints the output once on one line, like I intended it to. Why exactly is that the case?