Two values from one input in python?

Question

This is somewhat of a simple question and I hate to ask it here, but I can\'t seem the find the answer anywhere else: is it possible to get multiple values from the user in

Answer 1

You can't really do it the C way (I think) but a pythonic way of doing this would be (if your 'inputs' have spaces in between them):

raw_answer = raw_input()
answers = raw_answer.split(' ') # list of 'answers'

So you could rewrite your try to:

var1, var2 = raw_input("enter two numbers:").split(' ')

Note that this it somewhat less flexible than using the 'first' solution (for example if you add a space at the end this will already break).

Also be aware that var1 and var2 will still be strings with this method when not cast to int.