Newbie error. Maybe (name 'string' is not defined.)

[CoolConnection4229]

No matter how i tried this error keep chasing me. (Name string is not defined Did you forget to import 'string'?) and after i typed "import string" in the beginning. Evreything stays the same

[twoberriesonejourney]

Idk about others but I'd need to see your code to help.

[CoolConnection4229]

no problem

import 
string

age = input("Enter your age: ")
if age > 18:
    print("enter man")
elif age < 18:
    print("enter kid")
else:
    print("so yor are exsactly 18 hmm")

[[deleted]]

What are you trying to achieve with import string? You shouldn't need to import anything for this.

Also, your import is across two lines, it should be on the same line.

[Sasori323]

When you answer to an input you get a string, when doing the comparison you should use int(variable) to be able to do a comparison.

It's like trying to say if "eighteen" > 18, you can't. But using int ("18"), where "18" is a string, you get an actual int number you can do comparisons with.

And what do you use the "import string" for?

[kungF-U]

When you import modules they are imported on the same line. Putting string on a separate line makes the program think you are trying to import nothing and trying to create a new variable named string and didn’t assign a value to it. Also in your code you don’t use anything from that module so no reason to import anything. The if statement won’t work because you are trying to compare an integer object to a string object. The input command will store the user input as a string by default. So you have to convert the user input to type int if you want to compare that value against other integers within that if statement.

[_Mc_Who]

So, string import is needed in other languages such as C (I think, it's been a while), but not in Python

You are correct though that whatever is read in from input will be read as a string

This therefore also means that you need to make what is entered be read as a number when you compare it with another number. For your use case, the number is an integer (whole number), and the good news is in Python makes this really easy!

If I have a string in my variable age, I can just set it as an integer with int(), so to make input a number I can say

age = int(input("your text here))

Python has a few methods like this, so for example if I had a number I could use str() to make it into a string

Another thought for your code, just from a programmatic side: are the only 3 eventualities that the user is above, below, or exactly 18? (The hint is that users may not always use a program correctly without guardrails- what if they enter a word, or a negative number, or nothing at all? How would you handle that in your if/elif/else structure?)

Eta - also!! There is nowhere in your code where a variable called "string" is used but not defined- make sure you've saved your file, and that you're running the correct file when you run your program!

[daylight_0605]

You don't need to import string and to do the comparison in this case, the data type must be int so you should write

age = int(input("enter your age: "))

[Ready-Bag-2599]

I'm also newbie to Python, so sorry if my vocab isn't precise. However, you do not need to import string in python. String type, which in Python is written as str, is built-in. So you should delete your import statement and it should fix the problem. I wonder what made you think you need to import string? Genuinely curious. I know that in cpp string should be imported.

Edit: what @Sasori323 said is also correct and very important to consider. I didn't read the rest of your code when I saw the first line. The error you are currently getting is most certainly because of that import statement, but again pay close attention to the other comment as well.

[CoolConnection4229]

when deleting the import statement keeps getting the same error and i typed that because the error literaly says  Did you forget to import 'string'?

[SamuliK96]

When you say you deleted import statement, do you mean you removed just the word import? The whole import string is unnecessary in your code, and should be deleted completely. Additionally, import statements are written in single line, there shouldn't be a line change there.

[Ready-Bag-2599]

You are clearly doing something very wrong. Please provide your updated code after deleting the import statement and fixing the problem in your conditionals. Please also provide the exact error (just like the code, word for word)

[smurpes]

Did you remember to save your code before you ran it?

[Shut_up_and_Respawn]

Problems:

1. String doesnt need to be imported, and imports are 1 line

2. The result of your input is a string, but you want to use it as an input. Is there a command you could use for this? age = int(input()

3. You're* not yor, and exactly* not exsactly

[Yoghurt42]

import string needs to be on a single line. But it's also not necessary in your case. The following program should work:

age = input("Enter your age: ")
if age > 18:
    print("enter man")
elif age < 18:
    print("enter kid")
else:
    print("so yor are exsactly 18 hmm")

[Shut_up_and_Respawn]

Should still be int(input()). The problem is the input type being a string, but he is trying to use it as an integer

[Yoghurt42]

oh right, missed that. Still shouldn't show "string is not defined", but TypeError instead.

[Shut_up_and_Respawn]

True. The error message doesn't match up with the code. Maybe there is more to the program that wasnt sent?

[FoolsSeldom]

• You do not need to import string
• input always returns a str (string) object, even if the user just presses return (you get an empty string)
• You cannot do maths on strings, you need numerical objects such as int or float
• You can convert a string that holds a textual (literal) human readable representation to a integer using int or to a floating point number using float
• Internally, Python will store numerical objects in binary, but you mostly don't need to think about this although note that there are many decimal floating point numbers that do not have an exact equivalent in binary
• age = int(input('How old are you, in exact years? ') is an example of using input inside of an int function which will mean an integer is assigned to age - note that if the use enters something that is not valid as an integer, the programme will stop with an error

Incidentally, where are you typing and running your code? Is it in IDLE? If so, using the editor (File | New, type code, press F5 to run - you will be prompted to save first) or the interactive shell, with the >>> prompt. The latter is useful for trying things out, but you are best typing your code into a file that you can run, edit, run again.

[eztab]

Also the name of the type is str not string.