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There are hardly any programs without any input. Input can come in various ways, for example, from a database, another computer, mouse clicks and movements or from
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the internet. Yet, in most cases the input stems from the keyboard. For this purpose, Python provides the function input(). input has an optional parameter, which is the
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Starting with either a casting function or the eval function.
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name = input("What's your name? ")
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We save the program as "input_test.py" and run it:
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Strings What's your name? "Frank"
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Your age? 42
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So, you are already 42 years old, Frank!
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We will further experiment with the input function in the following interactive Python session: version for Python
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2.x as well: Keyboard
Sets and Frozen >>> cities_canada = input("Largest cities in Canada: ") Input in Python 2.x
Sets Largest cities in Canada: ["Toronto", "Montreal", "Calgara", "Ottawa"]
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