Question

//This is my code, It looks kind of complicated. I didn't think about using "X and Y"
// My answer looks like ('Doe', '3/14/85')
// I want to know why it put parentheses and commas. I just want it to print out the last name and date of birth

question = "Enter your date of birth:"
print (question)
answer = raw_input()

question = "Enter your last name:"
print (question)
response = raw_input()

print (response, answer)

Answer 1

//You do java too? :D
# You use the "#" symbol in python to comment out lines

Ok, I am still pretty new to python, but here's the way I would change/rewrite your code:

#this line has the exact same meaning of the first 3 lines of your code
date_of_birth = raw_input("Enter your date of birth: ")

#this has the same purpose as your next 3 lines, all combined into one
last_name = raw_input("Enter your last name: ")

#the way you had your print line worked fine, but this also will work
print date_of_birth, last_name

Answer 2

Thank you so much!!! I do use a little java, i had to use it in my senior design project for college. I was just commenting out my questions so people would know lol but i did not know # was used for commenting in python. I am really new to this , I want to expand my knowledge in coding languages, that's why I am trying to learn python . Thanks again, I really appreciate it. That was so much easier to do the way you showed me.

Answer 3

glad i could help :D

Answer 4

If you're running your code in Python v 2.x, I think that your print statement is making a tuple out of response and answer and then printing the tuple. It would be fun to try without the parentheses.