Python - sum of two numbers program error

Question

I was just getting into Python programming. I wrote a simple program to calculate sum of two user-input numbers:

a,b = input(\"enter first number\"), input(\"ent         


        

Answer 1

input() in Python 3 returns a string; you need to convert the input values to integers with int() before you can add them:

a,b = int(input("enter first number")), int(input("enter second number"))

(You may want to wrap this in a try:/except ValueError: for nicer response when the user doesn't enter an integer.