ItP 2 - User Input

Question 1

We often want to ask the user for information. One to do this is the

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input () function in Python

Question 2

The input function takes a string which will be used as … it then returns… - (2)

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the “prompt” to the user.

It then returns what the user typed.

Question 3

Write a code that takes user’s input of a word and stores into variable ‘data’

Then print type of ‘data’ variable

Then print contents of variable ‘data’

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Question 4

What will be output of code if my input is zebra?

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Question 5

You can use the input() function to get input from the user.

This input is initially

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a string, but you can convert it to an integer (or other data types) using conversion functions like int()

Question 6

What does ‘int()’ function do in Python?

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function is used to convert a given value to an integer.

Question 7

Example:

can also get numbers using input. They start as strings but then, if you are lucky, Python can convert them to int

What will be the output of this code?

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Question 8

What will be output of this code if my input is Gta?

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Question 9

Alter the code so that

Print out: the name, the number and the number doubled (times by 2).

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Question 10

Coding exericse:

Write a script which inputs two numbers. The first should be a number to count from, the second a number to count to. Once the user has input the numbers, you should print - using a loop - all of the numbers between the starting and ending number (inclusive; think carefully about this), one per line.

An example run of the program might look like this:

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Question 11

3 main collections of data or data structures in Python are - (3)

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1. Lists
2. Tuples
3. Dictionaries