Confused on what the error is in my code

Question

random = 'abc sjfiwb'
random[3:6]
print(random[2:7])
print(input("enter a number: ")) * (input("enter a word: "))

I was practicing what I learned and I was trying to multiply a word entered by the number entered, so it would repeat the word that amount of times. what am I doing wrong? I tried changing it over and over to no avail

Answer 1

https://code.sololearn.com/cQvB82pGc7Dv/?ref=app

Answer 2

well I did put int at the beginning, so I'm confused why the format I used doesn't work?

Answer 3

I just used word and num as variables.

input() ... this takes input as a string

int(input()) ... this takes input as an integer.

word=input() gives word the value of whatever word(s) you give it

num=int(input()) gives num the value of whatever number you give it.

same as you did above with your first line. you made a variable called random and gave it a value of abc sjfiwb. that's all num is. just what I named a variable

Answer 4

@Eranga what's the extra parenthesis at then end for? tried it in my code and that got an error so that don't know how it worked in that one

Answer 5

print(input("enter a word: ") * int(input("enter a number: ")))

inputs by default are strings. if you want one input to be a number, cast it as an integer. to explain it in an easier to see way, here.

word=input("Enter a word")
num=int(input("Enter a number"))
print(word*num)

Answer 6

the format you used will work. if you have your input wrapped inside of int() it will. you do have a second ) after your number input however

Answer 7

Let me break down ur last line.
print(input("enter a number: ")) * (input("enter a word: "))
Below I have separated the code from * in to 2 parts
1=> print(input("enter a number: "))
2=> (input("enter a word: "))

1=> gets user input and print it
2=> just get the users input
so,
1*2=> u trying to multyply these two. I think now u understand there is something very wrong here.

Correct Code:
print(int(input("enter a number: ")) * (input("enter a word: ")))
I will do the same.before that let me omit the print statement.
it will look like below
int(input("enter a number: ")) * (input("enter a word: "))

1=> int(input("enter a number: "))
2=> (input("enter a word: "))

1=> get user input and convert it into an integer
2=> get user input​ which is a string
let's say user entered number 2 and "word" as word
1*2 => 2 * "word"
result => wordword
now u want to print this
so,
print(1*2) => print(int(input("enter a number: ")) * (input("enter a word: ")))

I thing u r referring to open and close paranthacis of 2nd statement (input("enter a word:")). paranthacis used for grouping but here u can avoid it.it will be input("enter a word:")

If I clean up this code little bit. I'm using variables here nTimes,myWord.it helps to break our statements and clear code for better understanding.

nTimes = int(input("enter a number: ")
myWord = input("enter a word: ")

print(nTimes * myWord)