A newbie that needs some HELP

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Don Arnold || Sun 25 Nov 2001 05:49:22p:

>
>On 25-Nov-2001, "The News" <lbaker at hot.rr.com> wrote:
>
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>> Now on to the problem.
>> I'm working on lists.  Trying to figure them out.  So I decide to
>> write this little algorithim for user inserted lists.  My proto goes
>> as follows: 
>> 
>> monty = []
>> number = input("How many Monty's are there?")
>> for x in range(1,number):
>> mln = input("Name a Monty?")
>> monty.append(aln)
>> print monty
>> 
>> It gets through it but prints out some wierd stuff along with each
>> listed monty.  Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Also, when I
>> try to get it to repeat x at the end of "Name a Monty #", x  it gives
>> me an error. How could I get around that?
>> 
>
>Use 'raw_input()' instead of 'input()'.

    	No one else seems to have noticed, but i think you want
'int( raw_input() )' as the total expression, as you want to use the input 
to create a range of numbers while raw_input() returns a string... int() 
parses this for you. :)

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