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 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..."

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Created page with "== 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. <pre> 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..."

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== 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.
<pre>
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))
</pre>

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