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[Terry Reedy]

<swapsun at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| Any idea why the following program does not work? I was learning IO on
| Python and the following generates a TypeError: range() integer end
| argument expected, got str.
| I am a beginner.
|
| ################################
| # print input name (str k), j times using raw_input
|
| def hello():
|    j=raw_input("Please type in the number of times you want to print
| ")
|    k=raw_input("Please type in your name ")
|    printname(j,k)
|
| def printname(j,k):
|          for i in range(j):
|                print ("Hello %s" % k)

For future debugging, use print to find out what values you actually have.
print j,k #before printname()
would have shown you that j is a string.
Also use the type() function as needed.
And do read the Lib Ref sections on builting functions and types.

tjr