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Python

Posted by Luke Andris
Luke Andris
185 Points

How can I make the answer to an input question a variable?

input("Hello, what is your first name?") print("Hello,", first_name)

first_name is what I want the name of the variable to be. I found out through trial and error that I cannot simply replace the first line with: first_name = input("Hello, what is your first name?")

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

What problem do you have when you make that assignment? That seems correct.

Luke Andris
Luke Andris
185 Points

What I'm trying to do is when after the first name is typed it greets you saying "Hello, person's first name. I just retyped the code and now it works smoothly. Before I was getting a syntax error. Thanks for your response.