exception as a control flow mechanism

#quote from MIT 'introduction to computation and programming using python, Revised' 
while True:
    val = raw_input('Enter an integer: ')
    try:
        val = int(val)
        print 'The square of the number you entered is', val**2
        break #to exit the while loop
    except ValueError:
        print val, 'is not an integer'
        
    

%run "C:\Users\Administrator\test.py"


Enter an integer: 12.0
12.0 is not an integer


Enter an integer: hello
hello is not an integer


Enter an integer: 11
The square of the number you entered is 121