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Inputs in Python

Learn how to request and store information from users in your programs

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What are inputs?

Inputs let us type something into the computer so it can use our answers in the program.

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Why do we use inputs?

So the computer can ask us questions and use our answers to do different things.

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name = input("What is your name? ")

This code asks a user to enter their name. The user's input will be stored in the variable: name

name = input("What is your name? ").lower()

The addition of .lower() means that the user's input will be converted to lower case, this is beneficial for comparing values.

name = str(input("What is your name? "))

The addition of str() means that users can only enter a string value. Other data types will not be accepted.

Inputs can be set to exclusive for other data types by using either: int, float, or bool in the same way.

Question 1

What does this code do?

name = input("What is your name? ")

Prints your name

Asks a user to enter their name

Question 2

Complete the code to request a user to input their age:

age = ______"What is your age?"_

Fill the blanks, leaving out any spaces.

Question 3

What is `age` here?

age = input("What is your age?" )

A string

A value

A variable

Question 4

What's wrong with this code?

input("What is your date of birth?" )

Shouldn't be a space between the close string and close bracket.

Having this input is useless without assigning it to a variable

Speech marks aren't required for input strings

Question 5

Write the code for an input assigned to the variable `eye_colour`, that asks "What is your eye colour? ":

Question 6

Can characters or words be enterred here?

code = int(input("Please enter your code: "))

Yes

Question 7

What data type can be entered here?

cash_deposit = float(input("How much cash would you like to deposit? "))

A string

An integer

A float

A boolean

Question 8

What is this code missing?

message = ("Type your message here: ")

A data type

The input syntax

A variable

Question 9

What does the `.lower()` method do?

name = input("Type your name: ").lower()

Coverts user's text input to all lower case

Coverts user's text input to all upper case

.lower() has no effect here

Question 10

Why do we use `.lower()`

So that we can compare values better

Lower case text takes up less memory

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