Raw Input Question

[hokiegal99]

How can I pass the content of one varible into raw_input? See below for
what I'm trying to do:

XXX = raw_input("1. Enter the string that you'd like to find: ")
y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace XXX with: ")

I'm trying to pass x into y. I tried the "Enter the string that you'd
like to replace", XXX, "with:" approach, but Pyhton told me that I could
only pass 1 argument, no more.

Thanks!!!

[Erik Max Francis]

Re: Raw Input Question

hokiegal99 wrote:
[color=blue]
> How can I pass the content of one varible into raw_input? See below
> for
> what I'm trying to do:
>
> XXX = raw_input("1. Enter the string that you'd like to find: ")
> y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace XXX
> with: ")
>
> I'm trying to pass x into y. I tried the "Enter the string that you'd
> like to replace", XXX, "with:" approach, but Pyhton told me that I
> could
> only pass 1 argument, no more.[/color]

raw_input takes a string, and a string like any other. You can build
the string yourself:

"Enter the string to replace " + XXX + " with:"

or

"Enter the string to replace %s with:" % XXX

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[hokiegal99]

Re: Raw Input Question

This one makes more sense to me so I used it, it works great:

"Enter the string to replace %s with:" % XXX

Thank you for your help!!!


Erik Max Francis wrote:[color=blue]
> hokiegal99 wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>How can I pass the content of one varible into raw_input? See below
>>for
>>what I'm trying to do:
>>
>>XXX = raw_input("1. Enter the string that you'd like to find: ")
>>y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace XXX
>>with: ")
>>
>>I'm trying to pass x into y. I tried the "Enter the string that you'd
>>like to replace", XXX, "with:" approach, but Pyhton told me that I
>>could
>>only pass 1 argument, no more.[/color]
>
>
> raw_input takes a string, and a string like any other. You can build
> the string yourself:
>
> "Enter the string to replace " + XXX + " with:"
>
> or
>
> "Enter the string to replace %s with:" % XXX
>[/color]

[mackstann]

Re: Raw Input Question

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:33:36PM -0400, hokiegal99 wrote:[color=blue]
> How can I pass the content of one varible into raw_input? See below for
> what I'm trying to do:
>
> XXX = raw_input("1. Enter the string that you'd like to find: ")
> y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace XXX with: ")
>
> I'm trying to pass x into y. I tried the "Enter the string that you'd
> like to replace", XXX, "with:" approach, but Pyhton told me that I could
> only pass 1 argument, no more.[/color]

Ah, you are confusing print's behavior for general string concatenation.
I believe what you want to do is:

y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace "+XXX+" with:")

or

y = raw_input("2. Enter the string that you'd like to replace %s with:" % XXX)

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