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.ko...@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.ko...@gmail.com> > >
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