Where is the value stored when the input function is executed.

Question

Where does the value that the user enters gets stored in. I am confused as there is no variable that is mentioned in the statement. Or am I completely wrong and the input statement is something like getch().

Answer 1

The input function in Python returns a string. So for example:

username = input('Username: ')

Answer 2

Yeah like James said, it does get stored in a variable, in this case the variable is "username". Side note btw, remember that all inputs are by default strings so something like this won't work:
number=input("put a number: ")
print(number+5)
because by default the input is a string, you can't add an integer (5) to a string. if you wanted to correct that, you should write
number=int(input("put a number: ")) this will transform whichever number the user put to a number (if it can)