“or” in a while loop confusion [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here is another way:

while True:
    print('Please type your name.')
    name = input()
    if name.startswith('your name'):
        print('invalid')
    else:
        break

print('Thank you!')

Answer 2

That's because your second condition is just a string 'your name.', which is always true. You need to add name != 'your name.' to the second condition:

while name != 'your name' or name != 'your name.':