[Tutor] Input() is not working as expected in Python 3.1

[Grigor Kolev]

В 10:06 -0500 на 15.02.2010 (пн), bob gailer написа:
> Yaraslau Shanhin wrote:
> 
>  > Hello All,
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Suggestion for future questions - just include enough to identify the 
> problem. We don't need to know that this is from a tutorial or what the 
> exercise is. Also (at least I prefer) plain text without formatting or 
> color.
> 
> Sufficient therefore is:
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> using  Python 3.1:
> text = str(input("Type in some text: "))
> number = int(input("How many times should it be printed? "))
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test4.py", line 2, in <module>
>     number = int(input("How many times should it be printed? "))
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10:
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Now carefully read the message "invalid literal for int()". This tells 
> you the argument to int is not a string representation of an integer. 
> There is nothing wrong with input()!
> 
> Since we don't know what you typed at the input() prompt we can't 
> diagnose it further. One way to solve problems like these is to capture 
> and print the output of input():
> 
> text = str(input("Type in some text: "))
> snumber = input("How many times should it be printed?")
> print snumber
> 
> A good robust alternative is to try int() and capture / report the failure:
> 
> text = str(input("Type in some text: "))
> snumber = input("How many times should it be printed?")
> try:
>   number = int(snumber)
> except ValueError:
>   print(number, "is not an integer.")
> else:
>   print (text * number)
> 
Try this:
>>>text = str(input("Type in some text: "))
Type in some text:"some text"
>>>snumber = int(input("How many times should it be printed?"))
How many times should it be printed?3
>>>print text*snumber
-- 
Grigor Kolev <grigor.kolev at gmail.com>