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Taking input in Python
Last Updated: 05-08-2020
Developers often have a need to interact with users, either to get data or to provide some sort of result. Most
programs today use a dialog box as a way of asking the user to provide some type of input. While Python
provides us with two inbuilt functions to read the input from the keyboard.
input ( prompt )
raw_input ( prompt )
input ( ) : This function first takes the input from the user and then evaluates the expression, which means
Python automatically identifies whether user entered a string or a number or list. If the input provided is not
correct then either syntax error or exception is raised by python. For example –
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# Python program showing
# a use of input()
val = input("Enter your value: ")
print(val)
Output:
How the input function works in Python :
When input() function executes program flow will be stopped until the user has given an input.
The text or message display on the output screen to ask a user to enter input value is optional i.e.
the prompt, will be printed on the screen is optional.
Whatever you enter as input, input function convert it into a string. if you enter an integer value
still input() function convert it into a string. You need to explicitly convert it into an integer in
your code using typecasting.
Code:
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# Program to check input
# type in Python
num = input ("Enter number :")
print(num)
name1 = input("Enter name : ")
print(name1)
# Printing type of input value
print ("type of number", type(num))
print ("type of name", type(name1))
Output :
raw_input ( ) : This function works in older version (like Python 2.x). This function takes exactly what is
typed from the keyboard, convert it to string and then return it to the variable in which we want to store. For
example –
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# Python program showing
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g = raw_input("Enter your name : ")
print g
Output :
Here, g is a variable which will get the string value, typed by user during the execution of program. Typing of
data for the raw_input() function is terminated by enter key. We can use raw_input() to enter numeric data
also. In that case we use typecasting.For more details on typecasting refer this.
Refer to the article Taking list as input from the user for more information.
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