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"Some People Around You Are Just Like the
Semicolon in Python, You Have to Debug the Code
and Omit them From Your Life……….. "
You will learn the following topics in this tutorial
S.No. Topics
1 The input ( ) function
2 The print ( ) function
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The input ( ) function
The input ( ) function prompts the user to enter data.
It accepts all user input as string.
The user may enter a number or a string but the input ( ) function
treats them as strings only.
The syntax for input ( ) is:
input ([Prompt])
Prompt is the string we may like to display on the screen prior to taking
the input, and it is optional.
For example,
The value that you type in front of
displayed prompt will be assigned to given
variables name and marks respectively.
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Inputting Numeric Values
Suppose we want to find sum of two numbers and the program is:
When we execute the above program, the program doesn’t add the two
numbers together; it just puts one right after the other as 1020
The solution to the above problem is:
Python offers two functions int ( ) and float ( ) to be used with input ( ) to
convert the values received through input ( ) into int and float types.
Accept an Integer input from User
We need to convert an input string value into an integer using a int( )
function.
num1 = int (input("Enter first number: ")) Both input values are
num2 = int(input("Enter second number: ")) converted into integer type
sum = num1 + num2
print ('The sum of ', num1, ' and ', num2, ' is ',sum)
OUTPUT: Enter first number: 10
Enter second number: 30
The sum of 10 and 30 is 40
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Accept an float input from User
You need to convert user input to the float number using the float()
function as we did for the integer value.
num1 = float (input("Enter first number: ")) Both input values are
num2 = float(input("Enter second number: ")) converted into float type
sum = num1 + num2
print ('The sum of ', num1, ' and ', num2, ' is ',sum)
OUTPUT: Enter first number: 10.5
Enter second number: 30.5
The sum of 10.5 and 30.5 is 41.0
Get multiple input values from a user in one line
In Python, we can accept two or three values from the user in one input()
call.
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The print ( ) function
The print ( ) function allows you to print out the value of a variable and
strings in parenthesis.
The general form of print ( ) function is:
print ( )
print (value/expr)
print (value, ...., sep=' ', end='\n', file=sys.stdout, flush=False)
The print ( ) function prints a blank line. For example:
>>> print ( )
The print ( ) function prints the value of variable or expression. For
example:
>>> N1 = 20
>>> N2 = 30
>>> Sum = N1 + N2
>>> print (Sum) # prints a value
50
>>> print (N1+N2) # prints a value of an expression i.e., N1+N2
50
>>> Ver = 3.6
>>> Prog = "Python"
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>>> print (Prog, Ver) # prints two values separated with comma (,)
Python 3.6
The print() function contains number of options. You can use either
one, two or all at once.
For example:
− Print a message.
>>> print ("The sum is") # prints a message
The sum is
>>> print ("My Python")
My Python
− Print a value, message or both message and values and vice versa.
>>> print ("The sum is", Sum) # prints a message with a value
The sum is 50
>>> print (Sum, "is the sum of", N1, "and", N2) # print is alternate way
50 is the sum of 20 and 30
The sep separator is used between the values. It defaults into a space
character. For example:
>>> print (10,20,30,40,sep='*') # prints a separator *
10*20*30*40
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After all values are printed, end is printed. It defaults into a new line.
>>> print (10, 20, 30, 40, sep = '*', end = '@') # A new end is assigned @
10*20*30*40@
Let us take other examples, where a print() function can output multiple
things at once, each item separated by a comma.
# The following code prints: The answer to 10+10 is 20
>>>print (" The answer to 10+10 is" , 10+10)
# The following code prints: The answer to 10+10 is 10+10
>>>print (" The answer to 10+10 is", "10+10 ")
# The following code does not work and product Invalid Syntax because
the comma (,) is inside the quotation marks and not outside.
>>>print (" The answer to 10+10 is ," 10+10)
print () with Concatenate Operator (+)
The print() function can print two strings either using comma (,) operator,
or a concatenate operator (+).
For example,
>>> print ("My name is Ahil", "Class-XI A.") # Print with space separator.
My name is Ahil Class-XI A.
Similarly, by using concatenate operator (+), the print() function is:
>>> print ("My name is Ashaz" + "Class-XI B.") # Print without separator.
My name is AshazClass-XI A.
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Formatting Data with print()
The general Syntax:
% width.precision type-char
For example:
a=2.45567
print("%.2F" %a)
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