How to store user input into list on Python

Question

I'm having a bit of trouble putting user inputs into a list. I basically want the user to input about 5 thing and have each item stored in the list individually. I then want to display all the input in said list. If anyone can give any bit of guidance it will be greatly appreciated. This is what i have so far:

mylist=[1,2,3,4,5]

print mylist

print"Enter 5 items on shopping list"

for i in mylist:
    shopping=raw_input()

print shopping

Have you looked at the python docs? docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists — Bahrom
– Bahrom, Commented May 1, 2016 at 2:44

Bahrom · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-01 02:58:26Z

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I strongly urge you to read through the Python docs which provide you with some basic examples of list operation - open up a shell, and type those examples out for yourself. Basically you want to store someone's input into mylist, so there is no need to predefine it with values:

mylist=[]

Now you want to prompt a user 5 times (to enter 5 items):

print "Enter 5 items on shopping list"
for i in xrange(5): # range starts from 0 and ends at 5-1 (so 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 executes your loop contents 5 times)
    shopping = raw_input()
    mylist.append(shopping) # add input to the list

print mylist # at this point your list contains the 5 things entered by user

edited May 1, 2016 at 2:58

answered May 1, 2016 at 2:46

Bahrom

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Klaus D. Over a year ago

xrange(5) or range(5). It starts at 0 but it ends at 4.

Bahrom Over a year ago

@KlausD. you're right, sorry I'm somewhat slow tonight.

jadjad93hehe · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-05 02:40:32Z

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This is my way of storing input into a list:

list = []
i = 1
while i < 6:
    a = input("Please enter " + str(i) +  " list : ")
    list.append(a)
    i+=1
print(list)

edited Jan 5, 2020 at 2:40

answered Jan 5, 2020 at 2:33

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njzk2 Over a year ago

why would you use while with i+=1 instead of for and range?

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