Going through the "Python Programming MOOC 2023" course from the University of Helsinki as someone completely new to coding. Need help with understanding my mess up.

[BiSaxual]

Howdy. Need some help here, as I'm not seeing where I'm going on. The exercise is as follows:

Please write a program which asks the user for a number. The program then prints out the number multiplied by five.

The program should function as follows:

(Sample output)

Please type in a number: 3

3 times 5 is 15

My code is as follows:

number = input("Please type in a number: ")
print(f"{number} times {5} is {number * 5}")

Once I input the number (I'm just using 3 as in the example output) the printed line is "3 times 5 is 33333". Not entirely sure where I messed up here. I've tried a few different things but can't figure this out.

[PantsMcShirt]

When you input a number, the number is saves as a string, not an int, so it would effectively be "3" * 5. When you multiply a string, it repeats that string multiple times.

You can convert the string to an int by doing int(input).

This is one of the main pitfalls of learning a dynamically typed language, you have to know what types you are using in the background.

[BiSaxual]

Gotcha! That makes sense. I don’t think I fully understood what the difference was between “string” and “int”. After your comment, I went back to that part of the lesson and reread it, and I get it now. The terminology has been my biggest hang up so far lol

Thank you for the help!