input function

Question

#my code:

x,y=int(input('enter two numbers: ').split(','))

#error:
TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'list'

explain please!

Answer 1

.split() converts and split string into a list.

Example of split method:

string = "This is a string"
print(string.split())
>>> ["This", "is", "a", "string"]

#It splits the string by whitespaces as default but you can split the string by whatever character you want

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And Here's what happened to your code:
INPUT
1 4

x, y = int(input().split())
x, y = int(["1", "4"])

#and here this will cause an error cause you cant convert list into an integer. Perhaps what you are trying to do is to convert each element into integer.

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For this to work:

x, y = [int(i) for i in input.split()]
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Then now..
x, y = [int(i) for i in ["1", "4"]]
x, y = [1, 4]
#x = 1
#y = 4

I hope this helps. If you need more explanation, feel free to ask. Thanks and Happy Coding!

Answer 2

You can also do this.

x, y = map(int, input().split(","))