Question

So im trying to make a program that asks for 3 numbers and then returns the product of those numbers (determining the volume of a cuboid)

def cuboid ():
    A = input('Height '),
    B = input('Width '),
    C = input('Depth '),

So far this makes PYthon ask for the three values, but i don’t know hot to tell python that they are not strings, but integers. i.e. i don’t know how to use the int() command.
so if after that I type: Volume = A*B*Cit gives a TypeError because he thinks that 1,2 and 3 are not integers.

I don’t know why it doesn’t work that way, because a rough

def o3 (x,y,z):
    print x*y*z

does work.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You’re using input() where you should be using raw_input(). After the input, you then just need to say a = int(a) and a will be an integer which you can do normal arithmetic on.

example:

def get_cube_dims():
    x = int( raw_input('Enter x:') )
    y = int( raw_input('Enter y:') )
    z = int( raw_input('Enter z:') )
    print 'The volume is: {}'.format(x*y*z)