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.ko...@gmail.com>
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