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Python

Posted by James Dunn
James Dunn
3,041 Points

Putting an input inside of a printed string.

So let me elaborate. This is not related to a code challenge but a question that came up in my own personal experimentation with python.

Below are the relevant lines of codes for this.

__s_input_line = print("\t"*3 + "| {}" + "\t"*3 + "|")

self.s_name = self.input_line.format(input("Enter Name: "))

What I'm trying to achieve is something like this.

Enter Name:

( I can't seem to keep this from doing some kind of text editing when I try to create a box around "Enter Name" the way I am in my program. So please use your imagination. )

The idea being that the cursor for the input is next to the colon after Name. allowing the user to input data inside the box I created.

So is this even possible? If so, am I on the right track?

Thanks gang.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points

On the first line, if you're trying to build a string to use with "format", you won't need a "print" statement.

If that's not the whole issue, try posting again and be sure to use Markdown formatting to preserve the indentation and special characters in the code.