Mastery 28 –\u00a0User input (text based) in Python (basic)<\/strong><\/p>\n

input(“prompt”)<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the many Built-in Functions of the\u00a0Python interpreter.<\/p>\n

The prompt\u00a0is written as an\u00a0output, the function recieves an input from the user and converts it to a data\u00a0type, usually a string. For this data\u00a0to have a meaning in the program, it should\u00a0be saved inside a variable, so the syntaxys for this would be:<\/p>\n

x =\u00a0input(“prompt”)<\/strong><\/p>\n

on Python 2, this function was raw_input() but now it is just input(). Previously raw_input() returned a string, but now input() can detect if the user entered another type of data such as integer or float.<\/p>\n

Mastery 26 –\u00a0Creation and use of strings in Python<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now we know that input() can creat a string, but what if you have a certain variable and you want it to be a string?<\/p>\n

Another handy built-in function is str(variable)\u00a0<\/strong>which converts the data of the variable into a string.<\/p>\n

To concatenate strings<\/strong> you join them with +<\/strong> signs, you can concatenate strings and variables, just be careful, strings need to be inside (\u201d \u201c)<\/strong> and variables do not, but they do need to become a string (if they aren\u2019t already),by doing using the before mentioned function\u00a0str (variable)<\/strong> to join everything smoothly.<\/p>\n

To make a string be seen\u00a0as an output we use another built-in function,\u00a0print (“string”)<\/strong> , which is explained more deeply on Mastery 10.<\/p>\n

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