syntax difference

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 23:26:43 +0100, Bart wrote:

> Then [40 years ago], the easy part was reading the three numbers. Now
> that would be the more challenging part.

# Get three numbers, separated by spaces, with no error-recovery.
# If you try to read bad data, the process will fail.
n1, n2, n3 = [float(s) for s in input("Enter three numbers: ").split()]

No more verbose or difficult (certainly not "challenging") than:

var:
  # need to declare these otherwise how will readln
  # know if it is reading floats or ints or strings?
  n1, n2, n3: float  
print("Enter three numbers: ")
n1, n2, n3 = readln()


If the use of a list comprehension is too advanced for a beginner in day 
one, how about this:

n1 = float(input("Enter a number: "))
n2 = float(input("Enter a number: "))
n3 = float(input("Enter a number: "))



-- 
Steven D'Aprano
"Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing
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