Reading input

Asking a question

input() pauses the program, waits for the person to type a line, and hands it back as a string. Whatever you pass to input() is printed first as the prompt:

name = input("What is your name? ")
print(f"Hello, {name}!")

input() always returns a string. Even if they type 42, you get "42". To do arithmetic you must convert:

age = int(input("How old are you? "))

In PyLearn the answers are supplied for you — this lesson feeds in Ada and then 36 — so your program runs the same way every time.

Your turn: ask for a name using the prompt Name: , then an age using the prompt Age: , then print a line of the form Ada will be 37 next year.

Use those two prompts exactly, since the check compares the whole conversation.