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

[Yaraslau Shanhin]

Thanks for try but print without () does not work at all, at least in newer
version of python (3.1)

Anyway source of problem is now discovered: Komodo Edit tool, in Python
shell (IDLE) everything works fine. Perhaps anyone has any ideas why?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Grigor Kolev <grigor.kolev at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20100216/b0580e43/attachment.htm>