Python Morsels: Prompting a user for input

Table of contents

1. Prompting for user input
2. Customizing the prompt text
3. Prompt users with Python's built-in input function

Prompting for user input

Python has a built-in input function that we can use to prompt a user of our program to enter some text:

>>> color=input("Favorite color:")Favorite color:▯

Our Python REPL is now hanging and waiting for us (the user) to input text. Let's type purple:

>>> color=input("Favorite color:")Favorite color:purple▯

After the user has typed the text they'd like to enter, they can hit the Enter key to lock-in the value.

>>> color=input("Favorite color:")Favorite color:purple>>>

Now the color variable contains the string purple:

>>> color'purple'

Customizing the prompt text

Note that the input function …