Accept an input as a word and not an integer

Question

How to make word inputs in Python I want to be able to have the computer to ask a question to the user like

test = int(input('This only takes a number as an answer'))

I want to be able to have 'test' not be a number, rather a word, or letter.

Solution 1

Just remove the int call! That is what makes the statement accept integer numbers only.

I.e, use:

test = input('This takes any string as an answer')

Solution 2

Remove the type cast to int

test = input('This only takes a word as an answer :')

A demo

>>> test = input('This only takes a word as an answer :')
This only takes a word as an answer :word
>>> test
'word'

Note - From the docs

The function then reads a line from input, converts it to a string (stripping a trailing newline), and returns that

Therefore input automatically converts it to a str and there is no need of any explicit cast.

Comments

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Can that helps? Python - How to check if input is a number.