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cistemaperio
cistemaperio

Reputation: 1

Argument inside of input

Very beginner question here! I'm trying to create a program that asks for 5 game results, takes away the best and the worst one and counts the average on the ones that are left -> final result.

I think I got the math and the lists right, BUT I can't find a way to get a running number inside of the input. (Example given in the #code comments.) I tried to look for a way to get this, but couldn't. Python says "TypeError: input expected at most 1 argument, got 2". I understand it means that I can't put the serial number inside the input then?

Is there another way to create this? I tried to go around it with function-type solution already, but could not figure it out.

def main():

    round = 1

    performance_results = []

    while round < 6:
        time = float(input("Enter the time for performance: ", round))


        # "enter the time for performance 1:
        # "enter the time for performance 2:
        # "enter the time for performance 3: ... till the end of while


        performance_results.append(time)

        round += 1


    # max and min from the list
    max_result = (max(performance_results))
    min_result = (min(performance_results))

    # removes max and min from the list
    performance_results.remove(max_result)
    performance_results.remove(min_result)

    # sum from all the numbers left on the list
    sum = performance_results[0]+performance_results[1]+performance_results[2]

    # average from the results
    final_result = sum / 3

    print("The official competition score is", final_result,"seconds.")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Upvotes: -1

Views: 50

Answers (3)

Sushil
Sushil

Reputation: 5531

This should help u:

float(input(f"Enter the time for performance {round}:"))

And as Amit mentioned, don't use keywords such as round as var names.

Upvotes: 0

Harrison Burt
Harrison Burt

Reputation: 26

If im interpreting this question correctly; you want to change the input it asks depending on the number, we can do this using string formatting!

Python has a few ways we can format strings (depending on your python version you may be limited to fewer)

f-string formatting f strings are the equivelent of js's string litterals providing a very easy to read format and are notated by the f at the start of the string, note: for python 3.6+ iirc

a = 123
b = "hello"
my_msg = f"{b} world, have some numbers: {a}"
print(my_msg)
# will give us as a response:
>>> hello world, have some numbers: 123

format() method str.format() is a less readable than f strings but can be alot more useful in places. they work for Python 3.x+ and use {} place holders

a = 123
b = hello
my_msg = "{} world, have some numbers: {a}".format(b, a=a) # yes! you can use place holders to be used as kwargs.
print(my_msg)
# will give us as a response:
>>> hello world, have some numbers: 123

There are other methods of formatting however these are the most popular and people have already mentioned another example.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Nanaware
Amit Nanaware

Reputation: 3346

you dont need to pass round as parameter to input function instead do the string formatting here.

try below code:

time = float(input("Enter the time for performance %s:" % round))

This will put value of round inside the string

TIP: round is python keyword you can use any other variable name instead of round

Upvotes: 1

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