What do I need to change to make this program work? I am getting:
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SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x92' in file C:/Users/RobotAdmin/PycharmProjects/untitled3/dialouge on line 10, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
I have no idea what this means.
def main ():
phrases = "Thank You Please Hello Hi How Old Are You What Is Your Address"** # String literal
print(phrases[17:22]) # This statement prints a specific segment of characters from the string literal
name = input('What is your name? :') # This statement prompts the user to enter their name and accepts it
print(phrases[23:25] + " " + name) # Retrieves from the string literal,and combines it with the name
print(phrases[25:41]) # This Statement asks for the user’s age
age = input('Age in Years? :') # This statement prompts the user to enter their age and accepts the age the entered
print(phrases[42:64]) # This segment asks What the user’s address is
address = input("Street Address, City, State, Country") #This statement asks user to enter their address
print (""
"______________________________"
"| |"
"|",name," |"
"| |"
"|",age," |"
"| |"
"|",address," |"
"| |"
"| |"
"|____________________________|")
The reason for getting your error is because of the character ’ used in your user’s comment which is subtlety different to user's which is standard ASCII. So the easiest solution is to just change those two characters.
If you'd prefer to keep them, you just need to add a suitable coding to the top of your script:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
To fix the script output, one solution is to use a dictionary to store your variables. This has two advantages, firstly you can easily determine the length of all of the text that was entered. Secondly it can be used with a format statement to substitute the placeholders in your output.
With some extra (rather weird) notation, we can get Python to automatically add enough space or underscore padding to all line up.
def main ():
phrases = "Thank You Please Hello Hi How Old Are You What Is Your Address" #** # String literal
details = dict()
print(phrases[17:22]) # This statement prints a specific segment of characters from the string literal
details['name'] = input('What is your name? :') # This statement prompts the user to enter their name and accepts it
print(phrases[23:25] + " " + details['name']) # Retrieves from the string literal,and combines it with the name
print(phrases[25:41]) # This Statement asks for the user's age
details['age'] = input('Age in Years? :') # This statement prompts the user to enter their age and accepts the age the entered
print(phrases[42:64]) # This segment asks What the user's address is
details['address'] = input("Street Address, City, State, Country") #This statement asks user to enter their address
# Determine the length of the longest entry
max_width = max([len(v) for v in details.values()])
print ("""
__{0:_<{width}}__
| {0: <{width}} |
| {name:{width}} |
| {0: <{width}} |
| {age:{width}} |
| {0: <{width}} |
| {address:{width}} |
| {0: <{width}} |
| {0: <{width}} |
|_{0:_<{width}}_|""".format('', width=max_width, **details))
main()
This would display something like the following output:
_____________________________
| |
| Fred Flintstone |
| |
| 35 |
| |
| Cobblestone Lane, Bedrock |
| |
| |
|___________________________|