🔒 Homework is slowly killing me :((

[heavy lion]

i put an image of my code, i dont understand what the error means, im trying to ask how manym people took an exam but its gibing me and error, can someone pls help me

[vague stag]

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[pure cradle]

what error?

[pure cradle]

Can you share the error message in text please?

[heavy lion]

sorry lol i forgot

[pure cradle]

ok so name[index] getting the letter out of a name string

[heavy lion]

mhm

[oblique niche]

u r using input but then doing ("student") that isnt possible

[pure cradle]

!e

name = "Bob"
index = 1
print(name[index])

[vague stag]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

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[pure cradle]

what is the value of name?

[heavy lion]

thanks :))

uhm im gonna be honest i dont known what that means we started python like a week ago

sorry lol im a little stupid

[pure cradle]

thats ok

[pure cradle]

Can you explain the first 3 lines of your script is and what is it supposed to be doing?

[heavy lion]

okay, the numname variable is meant to store the number of people takinmg the test, so it will only ask for that many names, the name one is just to store names of people and the *numname after it is meant to make the array store how ever many names it needs, same with the test score

[pure cradle]

I see

So you're supposed to append() the input into the name list

And repeat for the test score too

[devout summit]

in line 2 you are creating an empty list name because numname = 0 but append is a better way to go

[pure cradle]

Do you know how to use .append() @heavy lion ?

[heavy lion]

nope , not at all

[heavy lion]

but i thought in input would chaneg numname to above 0

[pure cradle]

!e

basket = []
print("This basket is empty")
print(basket)
print("I'm gonna add milk into my basket")
print(basket.append("milk"))
print("There's milk in my basket")
print(basket)

[vague stag]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | This basket is empty
002 | []
003 | I'm gonna add milk into my basket
004 | None
005 | There's milk in my basket
006 | ['milk']

[pure cradle]

It won't

input() will prompt for the user to enter whatever value you ask the user to and will save it as a string back to the variable its assigned to (if there is one)

name = input("What is your name? ") # Assuming the user typed "Bob"
print(name) # This will display "Bob"

So put them together you get,

names.append(input("Enter student name: "))

But put that into a loop

[devout summit]

You could move the name list assignment to after input number of students but go with append

[heavy lion]

yeah, okay thankds :))

ill try iut now

thanks :))

[pure cradle]

cool

[vague stag]

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