How to make program go back to the top of the code instead of closing

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to make Python go back to the top of the code. In SmallBasic, you do

start:
    textwindow.writeline("Poo")
    goto start

But I can't figure out how you do that in Python :/ Any ideas anyone?

The code I'm trying to loop is this

#Alan's Toolkit for conversions

def start() :
    print ("Welcome to the converter toolkit made by Alan.")
    op = input ("Please input what operation you wish to perform. 1 for Fahrenheit to Celsius, 2 for meters to centimetres and 3 for megabytes to gigabytes")

if op == "1":
    f1 = input ("Please enter your fahrenheit temperature: ")
    f1 = int(f1)

    a1 = (f1 - 32) / 1.8
    a1 = str(a1)

    print (a1+" celsius") 

elif op == "2":
    m1 = input ("Please input your the amount of meters you wish to convert: ")
    m1 = int(m1)
    m2 = (m1 * 100)

    m2 = str(m2)
    print (m2+" m")


if op == "3":
    mb1 = input ("Please input the amount of megabytes you want to convert")
    mb1 = int(mb1)
    mb2 = (mb1 / 1024)
    mb3 = (mb2 / 1024)

    mb3 = str(mb3)

    print (mb3+" GB")

else:
    print ("Sorry, that was an invalid command!")

start()

So basically, when the user finishes their conversion, I want it to loop back to the top. I still can't put your loop examples into practise with this, as each time I use the def function to loop, it says that "op" is not defined.

Answer 1

Use an infinite loop:

while True:
    print('Hello world!')

This certainly can apply to your start() function as well; you can exit the loop with either break, or use return to exit the function altogether, which also terminates the loop:

def start():
    print ("Welcome to the converter toolkit made by Alan.")

    while True:
        op = input ("Please input what operation you wish to perform. 1 for Fahrenheit to Celsius, 2 for meters to centimetres and 3 for megabytes to gigabytes")

        if op == "1":
            f1 = input ("Please enter your fahrenheit temperature: ")
            f1 = int(f1)

            a1 = (f1 - 32) / 1.8
            a1 = str(a1)

            print (a1+" celsius") 

        elif op == "2":
            m1 = input ("Please input your the amount of meters you wish to convert: ")
            m1 = int(m1)
            m2 = (m1 * 100)

            m2 = str(m2)
            print (m2+" m")

        if op == "3":
            mb1 = input ("Please input the amount of megabytes you want to convert")
            mb1 = int(mb1)
            mb2 = (mb1 / 1024)
            mb3 = (mb2 / 1024)

            mb3 = str(mb3)

            print (mb3+" GB")

        else:
            print ("Sorry, that was an invalid command!")

If you were to add an option to quit as well, that could be:

if op.lower() in {'q', 'quit', 'e', 'exit'}:
    print("Goodbye!")
    return

for example.