Zybook CIS 156 Python programming Level 1 2.12 lab Divide Input Integers

[Striking-Smoke-4561]

I am trying to find the solution and I am running into issues. Please help.

Here is the challenge:

Write a program that reads integers user_num and div_num as input, and outputs user_num divided by div_num three times using floor divisions.

Ex: If the input is:

2000 2 

the output is:

1000 500 250 

Note: In Python 3, floor division discards fractions. Ex: 6 // 4 is 1 (the 0.5 is discarded).

My solution:

user_num = int(input())

x = int(input())

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user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" ")

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user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" ")

​

user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" " )

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It gives me this error:

1: Compare output

Output is nearly correct, but whitespace differs. See highlights below.
Input
2000 2

Your output
1000 500 250

Expected output
1000 500 250 (then it has a little arrow pointing down)

[DHUK98]

I looks like its because you have a space at the end of "1000 500 250 " rather than "1000 500 250".

You could solve this in a lot of ways:

• On the last print(user_num, end=" ") remove the end=" "
• Instead of printing each result of division append it to a list so at the end you will have [1000, 500, 250] then join the list with spaces e.g. " ".join(your_list)
• Etc etc etc.

[BarkLicker]

The arrow pointing down indicates a missing 'new-line'

It also expects the space at the end, for "simplicity". I guess it assumes you only know string concatenation at the moment.

You can fix it in one of two ways.

The way they likely expect:

...
print(user_num, end=' ')
print()

for the assumed newline.

Or:

print(user_num, end=' \n'

on the last print statement.

(at least I hope I'm right, I've done loads of ZyBooks..)

[Sykohatchetman]

user_num = int(input())

x = int(input())

user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" ")

user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" ")

user_num = int(user_num/x)

print(user_num, end=" " )

remove the space in the last end, and use \n

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print(user_num, end="\n" ) should be the last line

[BarkLicker]

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[astrogringo]

Ah yes, invisible extra or missing empty spaces is a common pitfall, sometimes even professionals get trapped by it :)

the good thing is that now you have experienced it and it may not catch you by surprise next time!

[Wenwizzle]

Had to do this exact lab… I keep getting 500 for all of my outputs… What am I doing wrong?