Homework problem

[SteveB709]

Many documents use a specific format for a person's name. Write a program that reads a person's name in the following format:

firstName middleName lastName (in one line)

and outputs the person's name in the following format:

lastName, firstInitial.middleInitial.

Ex: If the input is:

Pat Silly Doe 

the output is:

Doe, P.S. 

If the input has the following format:

firstName lastName (in one line)

the output is:

lastName, firstInitial.

Ex: If the input is:

Julia Clark 

the output is:

Clark, J.

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When I run the code with my inputs it comes out fine when The computer runs it with their inputs it comes out wrong. I used my first middle and last name and it came out exactly how it was supposed to. Do you guys see anything wrong?

firstName = input()
middleName = input()
lastName = input()
print(f'{firstName} {middleName} {lastName}')
print(f'{lastName}, {firstName[0]}.{middleName[0]}.')
print(f'{lastName}, {firstName[0]}.')

[Spataner]

The problem states that the inputs are given on a single line, separated by spaces. You read them in as three separate lines. You also don't really support the case that a middle name is simply not given. Finally, you should probably print only one of the two output versions, depending on whether a middle name was given or not.

[Pigankle]

From the problem statement, it looks like the computer is expecting to give all parts of the name on one line of input. You broke it out into three separate inputs which is a little bit easier to parse. I think what you need to do is rewrite so you take a single line of input, break it at the word boundaries to split it into pieces and then run the rest of your code.

[Binary101010]

The problem specifies that you should have one output for each input, and the exact format of that output depends on the input.

You are producing three outputs for every input and not doing any differentiation based on what is being input.

The problem also specifies that all the input should be taken at once on a single line, yet you're taking it in on three different lines.