[Tutor] Truckers log Recap

[glidedon]

Hello kind people,

While trying to implement all your great suggestions, I ran in to a problem.

Please excuse my ignorance :-)

When I replaced this :


# collect user input for first 8 days of record

day1 = input('Enter total hours on duty day1 ?')
day2 = input('Enter total hours on duty day2 ?')
day3 = input('Enter total hours on duty day3 ?')
day4 = input('Enter total hours on duty day4 ?')
day5 = input('Enter total hours on duty day5 ?')
day6 = input('Enter total hours on duty day6 ?')
day7 = input('Enter total hours on duty day7 ?')
day8 = input('Enter total hours on duty day8 ?')

with this :

for i in range( 8 ):
    querry_string = " Enter total hours on duty on day%d   "  % ( i +1 )
    input = raw_input(querry_string)
    history_list.append( input )

I think the values are stored as strings and not numbers and thus breaks the 
rest of the program.

Am I right in this thinking?...and strings are imutable so I can't change 
them back to numbers later in the program.. Right ?

Thanks in advance

Don