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Kovacic95
Kovacic95

Reputation: 91

Python exercise clarification

I am following an exercise on the book how to automate the boring stuff and I was wondering what is the purpose of the str(len(catNames) on line 3, will it just add a number after user inputs data e.g. Enter the name of cat 2,3 etc? Thanks in advance!

catNames = []
while True:
    print('Enter the name of cat ' + str(len(catNames) + 1) + ' (Or enter nothing to stop.):')
    name = input()
    if name == '':
        break
    catNames = catNames + [name]  # list concatenation
print('The cat names are:')
for name in catNames:
    print('  ' + name)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 216

Answers (3)

user13715010
user13715010

Reputation:

See in python you cannot concatenate an integer and a string , so in the above example len(catNames)) returns an integer i.e. length of list catNames. therefore in order to concatenate it with other strings i.e. "Enter the name of cat" you have to make use of str() function to convert integer to strings

Upvotes: 3

EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine
EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine

Reputation: 12181

will it just add a number after user inputs data e.g. Enter the name of cat 2,3 etc

Exactly. The str is to convert this to a string (instead of an integer) because the author wants to do string concatenation, not arithmetic addition.

Upvotes: 2

CopyOfA
CopyOfA

Reputation: 851

In order to concatenate together strings and numbers, the numbers have to first be converted strings. So the command str(len(catNames) + 1) simply: 1) Asks what is the length of catNames, and add 1 to this number; 2) Convert that number to a string. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

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