Question

I am creating a python program that creates an xhtml table for websites based on a variable value.

please look at the following two codes. The second one does not work.

rows = int(input('How many rows would you like? '))
for i in range(rows):
    print 'lol'

rows = raw_input('How many rows would you like? ')
int(rows)
for i in range(rows):
    print 'lol'

even though i have properly stated that the rows variable is being changed to an integer, why doesn’t the range function accept this, and treat it as as integer?

Answer 1

i have properly stated that the rows variable is being changed to an
integer

No, rows is not being changed to an integer. Just applying int(rows) on rows does not change the str object rows to int. But it returns an integer object.

You would either need to store the return value in a variable, and use it. Or, directly use it in range function.

int(rows)
for i in range(rows):  // rows used here is still a string

The above code should be: –

for i in range(int(rows)):