Chapter 7 Useful Built-in Functions

7.1 Some Functions

input() pauses an interactive program and returns the user’s response as a string. Convert it explicitly when a numeric value is required:

number = int(input("Enter a number: "))

Book builds are non-interactive, so the runnable multiplication-table example uses a fixed value:

number = 5

for multiplier in range(1, 11):
    product = multiplier * number
    print(multiplier, "x", number, "=", product)

## 1 x 5 = 5
## 2 x 5 = 10
## 3 x 5 = 15
## 4 x 5 = 20
## 5 x 5 = 25
## 6 x 5 = 30
## 7 x 5 = 35
## 8 x 5 = 40
## 9 x 5 = 45
## 10 x 5 = 50