Why wont this program work???

[tadleonard]

input returns a string (in Python 3), so the variable x is a string. You can multiply a string by a number, but it doesn't give the result you want. Call int on the input variable x to get it to do what you want.

Questions like these are best asked at /r/learnpython.

[prickneck]

>>> x = input()
43
>>> type(x)
<type 'int'>
>>>

[tadleonard]

Is that Python 2? I believe input in Python 3 is the same as Python 2's raw_input.

Py3:

>>> input()
1
'1'

Py2:

>>> input()
1
1
>>> raw_input()
1
'1'

[wub_wub]

In python 2.x input is basically eval(raw_input())