[Tutor] raw_input into range() function

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Apr 18 13:00:57 CEST 2007


Guba wrote:

> The code I have come up with so far is further below; basically my
> problem is that I don't know how to feed the range() function with the
> user-input numbers it expects.

> # Telling the player what to do & assigning that info to variables.
> start_num = int(raw_input("Please give me a starting number. "))
> end_num = int(raw_input("Please give me an ending number. "))
> interval = int(raw_input("By which amount am I to count? "))
> 
> start_num == 0
> end_num == 1
> interval == 2
> 
> print "Counting:"
> for i in range(0, 1, 2):
>     print i

Just use the variable names instead of the numbers:
   for i in range(start_num, end_num, interval):

Kent


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