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David Burks
731 PointsMine returns command prompt
user_string = input("What's your word? ")
user_num = input("What's your number? ")
try:
our_num = int(user_num)
except:
our_num = float(user_num)
if not "." in user_num:
print(user_string(our_num))
else:
ratio = round(len(user_string) *our_num)
print(user_string(ratio))
The above is my code as I copied it from the video. My code does ask the questions, but does nothing with the numbers, therefore it escapes out and I get the command prompt line? What happened?
David Burks
731 PointsThanks for the help william. cleared it right up
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherLooks like you're using parentheses where you should be using square brackets. This is inside of your if and else blocks when you print(). You're accessing a member of the string and this is done with brackets.
if not "." in user_num:
print(user_string[our_num])
else:
ratio = round(len(user_string) *our_num)
print(user_string[ratio])
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsWilliam Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsCan you format your code properly using Markdown code block? It's really hard to read, especially Python code, without proper indentation, it's impossible to understand what goes wrong.