Print out the letter from output from input

Question

I made this function and I want to adapt it to take two parameters. One for the letter and one for the number. The function should print the appropriate amount of letters. (e.g. If the user types "monkey" and "3" the function will output "mon")

So far this is my code

word = input ("What is your word?")
number = input ("What is your number? ")
def test():

    letter=word[0]
    print (letter)

test()

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 27 '15 at 01:26

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Is that what you want?

word = input("What is your word?")
number = int(input("What is your number? "))

def test(word, number):
    print(word[:number])

test(word, number)

Result:

What is your word?monkey    
What is your number? 3    
mon

edited Nov 27 '15 at 01:26

Remi Guan

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answered Nov 27 '15 at 00:40

Julien

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I'm using Python2, try `word[:int(number)]` – Julien Nov 27 '15 at 00:54
it comes up with invalid syntax – Jakus Nov 27 '15 at 00:56
Well in any case, please don't down vote a solution just because it is using a different Python version to yours. – Julien Nov 27 '15 at 00:59
i never did ;P i need at least 15 reputation – Jakus Nov 27 '15 at 01:00
Ok sorry for the blind accusation! – Julien Nov 27 '15 at 01:02
@Jakus: No, that's impossible. What's the error are you getting? – Remi Guan Nov 27 '15 at 01:08
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If Jakus is using Python 3 then raw_input can't be used. Only use input. You also don't need to add quotes around the word being provided. Will also have to convert number to int. – Steven Summers Nov 27 '15 at 01:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '15 at 18:02

word = input ("What is your word: ")
number = input ("What is your number: ")

def test():
    print(word[:int(number)])

test()

This should not give you your syntax error that you mentioned in Julien Bernu's question.

Note: This is assuming you are using the latest version of python

Print out the letter from output from input

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