Question

I am working on problem set zeroi and It all works except how do you program a space between the question and the answer ?

Answer 1

Should be automatic. When I run my ps0.py the output after specifying both inputs has a space between first and last name.

Answer 2

not exactly, if he says print firstname + lastname it will be one word
it should look
print firstname, lastname (using a ",")
if i get what you meant wrong, i apologize

Answer 3

Thanks nessman, thats what I was missing ,Also when it prints each name there is no space between the question and the answer !

Answer 4

i don't understand what you mean there, could you post your code and perhaps the output your having a problem with?

Answer 5

Oh. I see now. I was using print(first_name,last_name) so the space was there automatically.

Answer 6

string_1=raw_input("Enter your last name please" )

Answer 7

and after please there is no space betmeen the e and the first letter of the name

Answer 8

try
string_1=raw_input("Enter your last name please\n" )
keeping the "\n" inside the quotes, this moves the cursor to the next line, there are a few other \commands that I remember seeing in our readings

Answer 9

print string_2 + string_1

Answer 10

nice let mne give that a shot

Answer 11

ok I had to go with + " " + to get the blank space inbetween names

Answer 12

that is odd, print string_2, string_1 gives me a space, its important to figure this out as when your working with anything that isn't a string you can't do that easily.
eg: you can't
number = 1
print number + " "apple"
or at least in 2.7, or maybe I have a bigger problem
how about your other problem?

Answer 13

yeah the \n puts the response on the next line

Answer 14

Thanks for the help

Answer 15

you could go print number + " " = apple

Answer 16

oops number + " " + apple

Answer 17

Weird, i get the error
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'
its something that seriously gets in my way at times

Answer 18

hmmmm

Answer 19

These will all give you the same output (there are others too):
print str(number) + ' some string'
print number,'some string'
print '%d some string'%number

Answer 20

what does "%d some string "% mean?, i have seen the other methods, but not the last

Answer 21

The %d basically says "I want to put an integer here". The %number at the end tells the interpreter to use the integer stored in the variable "number".

I probably should have mentioned that this assumes "number" is an integer. You would use %f for a float, %s for a string, etc. You can also use '{0} some string'.format(number), which doesn't care about the variable type.

For more info (and more string formatting options), check out: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting