Example code - Lists

Analysing string content

This is an upgrade of the previous "Determine the input". Here every word, integer and float on the line is counted. Quite a few list concepts are used - on purpose.

inputstring = input("Enter something and I will figure out what it is: ")
inlist = inputstring.split()
# ints, floats and words count
resultlist = [0, 0, 0]
resultname = ('ints', 'floats', 'words')
# Analyze
for item in inlist:
    try:
        itempos = 2
        result = float(item)
        itempos = 1
        result = int(item)
        itempos = 0
    except ValueError:
        pass
    resultlist[itempos] += 1

printlist = list()

if inputstring == "":
    printlist.append("No input")
elif len(inlist) == 0:
    printlist.append("Just some whitespace")
else:
    # Remove non-interesting 0 results - no need to say you found 0 integers.
    for i in range(len(resultlist)):
        if resultlist[i] != 0:
            printlist.append(str(resultlist[i]) + " " + resultname[i])

print("The input had:", ' and '.join(printlist))