Learn Python 3 the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code

Exercise 12. Prompting People

When you typed input() you were typing the ( and ) characters, which are parenthesis characters. This is similar to when you used them to do a format with extra variables, as in f"{x} {y}". For input you can also put in a prompt to show to a person so he knows what to type. Put a string that you want for the prompt inside the () so that it looks like this:

y = input("Name? ")

This prompts the user with “Name?” and puts the result into the variable y. This is how you ask someone a question and get the answer.

This means we can completely rewrite our previous exercise using just input to do all the prompting.

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ex12.py

 1    age = input("How old are you? ") 2    height = input("How tall ...