Read many inputs at the same time in Python

Question

I am making a program that read 2 or more input at the same time. How can I read input that has the form a b? For example: 3 4. I need to read 2 variables: a = 3 and b = 4.

• arshajii: What Python version are you using? 3.x or 2.x?
• windoanvn: 3.x :) I just started learning Python. Can you tell me some books which you think are useful for absolute beginners?

Answer 1

You can do something like

a,b = input().split()

For example:

>>> a,b = input().split()
3 4
>>> a
'3'
>>> b
'4'

For reference, see input() and str.split().

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If you want a and b to be ints, you can call map() (as is described in the comments):

a,b = map(int, input().split())

• icktoofay: And if they needed to be ints, for example, you could wrap a map with an appropriate first argument around input().split().
• inspectorG4dget: @icktoofay: (mentioning this just for completeness) or you could do a list comprehension: [int(i) for i in input().split()]
• arshajii: @user2727512 As the comments describe, a,b = map(int, input().split()) would work.