Question

Hi everyone - I am doing the first problem set (#0) and I have almost figured it out and got it working but when I run the module it asks the two questions twice before it outputs your name and d.o.b together. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

actually never mind - i figured it out!
But it would be great if someone could have a look at my final source code to see if it is in fact correct or if there is another way you could do it. This is what I ended up with:

dob = raw_input('What is your date of birth? ')
name = raw_input('What is your last name? ')
print(name + dob)

Answer 2

this code is absolutely right as you are taking name and dob as strings and then adding them up

Answer 3

is there a space between name and dob? is that what you intended? another way might be;

print name, dob

Answer 4

An easier to understand version of the space could be a literal concatenation:

print name + " " + dob

Answer 5

I think your code is right for python 3, but not for version 27. Does it matter which one we use for this course?

Answer 6

His code is good for v2.x. V3 uses input() instead of raw_input().

Answer 7

Thanks for your input guys! I didn't intend for there to be aspace but I wasn't sure if there needed to be a space either side of the '+' sign but I wil keep your comments in mind for when I do want a space :) Thanks everyone you have been super helpful.

Answer 8

The space on the side of the plus sign is an optional matter of syntax. When you're concatenating strings, you get exactly what you specify:

print "Hello" + "World"
# is probably wrong
print "Hello " + "World"
# is probably right