Python Mistake - Number of letters in name

Question

Write a program that checks how long a name is. The program should take a name as input from the user.

If the name has 3 or fewer letters, your program should work like

Answer 1

a = input('Enter your name: ')

if len(a) <= int(3):
  print ('Hi', a+ ',', 'you have a short name.')

elif len(a) <= int(8):
 print ('Hi', a+ ', nice to meet you.') 

elif len(a) > int(8):
  print ('Hi', a+ ', you have a long name.')

Answer 2

You code will not behave as you expect. In addition to using len, use string formatting. Try re-arranging your if statements as follows:

name = raw_input('Enter your name: ')

if len(name) > 8:
  print 'Hi {}, you have a long name.'.format(name)
elif len(name) > 3:
  print 'Hi {}, nice to meet you.'.format(name)
else:
  print 'Hi {}, you have a short name.'.format(name)

or you could factor it like this:

name = raw_input('Enter your name: ')
greeting = 'Hi {}, '.format(name)

if len(name) > 8:
  statement = 'you have a long name.'
elif len(name) > 3:
  statement = 'nice to meet you.'
else:
  statement = 'you have a short name.'

print '{}{}'.format(greeting, statement)

Answer 3

You should use len(name) and you don't need int(3) as 3 is already an integer. Your check should look like this:

name = input('Enter your name: ')

if len(name) >= 3:
   # do stuff

I changed Name to name as this is the standard convention of variable naming in Python.