while loop stumbling block

[YoungGrassHopper]

You are keeping your variables separate enough. This is an outline of what your code should look like for both problems:

data = []
while True:
    next_datum = input('What is the next whatever? ')
    if next_datum == stop_value:
        break
    data.append(next_datum)
print(data)

next_datum is what they just entered. data is a list of everything valid that they entered. stop_value is whatever response stops the loop.

For the one with numbers, you want to look at the int() function to convert strings to integers.

Ok, I see, I will try and recode it following your suggested code outline, thanks again so much for your help I do appreciate it :)