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In this lesson, I'm going to show you how
you can ask the user to write something,

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which you can then use
and store inside a variable.

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This will add more interactiveness to
the program and makes it more dynamic.

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It's going to be great for
your Python learning path.

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So if you want to ask the
user to write something,

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you just have to use
the input function like this.

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Open and close the parentheses.

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So I press enter and now as you
can see the cursor is on the next line

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and is actually waiting
for you to write something.

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So let's write test.

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Okay and you can see now the result.

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So what is going into
the input function is test.

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Input.

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If you want, you can also ask the user.

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So you can ask a question.

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If you just write input, it's
going to wait for an input.

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You can also give an
information of what you want.

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Let's say choose a number.

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So now I have choose a number
and I can choose a number.

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Let's say 3.

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I write 3 and then it is evaluated to 3.

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So we can actually make it better.

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Just put a column like this in a space.

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Okay to make it look better.

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And as you can see here, if you
give a string or if you give a number,

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the result is always going to be
a string with the input function.

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Okay if I type input.

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Let's say choose a number.

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So here as you can see I'm using a Python
function inside another Python function.

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In that case what is
going to happen, the more

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nested function is actually
going to be called first.

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So input is going to be called
so it will print choose a number.

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And then this, the result of the input
function is going to go in the type function

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which will evaluate the
type of what you gave.

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So I'm going to put 3 and you
can see now we have type string.

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Okay that's an important thing to
know is that whenever you use input,

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the result you are going
to get will be of type string.

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And well what you can do
is, I can do, so let's do input.

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And I can do for example
a is equal to input.

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Okay so I choose a number let's say 67.

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And now the result of the
input will go to the variable a.

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So if I do a, I get 67 which
is of course a string here.

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But then from that you can use
the input of the user in your program.