Getting User Input 👋

The input() Function

input() pauses your program and waits for the user to type something and press Enter. Whatever they type comes back as a string.

name = input("What is your name? ")
print("Hello, " + name + "!")

Converting to Numbers

input() always returns a string. If you want to do math with the result, you need to convert it:

age_str = input("How old are you? ")
age = int(age_str)         # convert to integer
print("In 10 years you will be", age + 10)

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