[Tutor] help

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Wed Feb 9 23:05:15 CET 2005


> PhoneNumber and such, I cannot get it to put them in
> as a string? 

I can't help in general but I did notice...

> PhoneNumber = input("what is the phone number for the
> person you are adding? ")

You shouldn't store phone numbers as numbers.
People often include spaces or hyphens or parentheses etc 
when entering them, eg:

+44 (0) 1234 567890
(542) 123 4567
0121-553-2609

etc etc...

And of course you get the alpha numerics:

0172 TAXICAB

So strings are the best solution (and they should be 24 characters 
long to handle the worst case international standard phone number!)

Alan G.
Who works for the phone company! :-)



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