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I'm trying to make a Madlibs-type thing in python, as I'm new to coding and wanted a sort of simple project to work on for a first thing to make. I'm trying to make it so that the verbs/nouns/adjective variables appear in the string, but they, instead of being called, are just right in the code. This is the first actual program that I've written, so this is probably a super easy fix, but I have no idea how to make this work.
print("Welcome To Madlibs")
choosepage = input("Choose Page, 1, 2 or 3. :\n")
choosepage = int(choosepage)
if choosepage == 1:
print("Welcome To Madlibs, Page 1")
adjective1 = input("Give One Adjective: ")
noun1 = input("Give One Noun: ")
noun2 = input("Give Another Noun: ")
verb1 = input("Give A Verb: ")
adjective2 = input("Give Another Adjective: ")
print("One Day, there was a "%adjective1" woman. This woman, was on a walk one day, when she saw a " %noun1 " She looked at the " %noun1 " and thought to herself, " %noun1 " looks like a " %noun2 "."
elif choosepage == 2:
print("Welcome To Madlibs, Page 2")
(The Code in Question)
The reason I'm putting % signs in front of the variables is because I saw that as a fix somewhere online.

You're looking for string formatting, which can use the .format() method or can be an "f-string" .. many helpful options exist for formatting numbers (such as padding)
>>> word = "airport"
>>> "they went to the {}".format(word)
'they went to the airport'
>>> f"they went to the {word}"
'they went to the airport'

Use f-strings:
print(f"One Day, there was a {adjective1} woman. This woman, was on a walk one day, when she saw a {noun1}. She looked at the {noun1} and thought to herself, {noun1} looks like a {noun2}."

Python 3.6 introduced f-strings, which makes it super easy to use variables in-line in a string. All you have to do is add the 'f' flag prior to your opening quote. They work as follows:
print(f"One Day, there was a {adjective1} woman. This woman, was on a walk one day, when she saw a {noun1} She looked at the {noun1} and thought to herself, {noun1} looks like a {noun2}.")
These have the advantage of being much clearer and easier to format than traditional string formatting in cases like this.

Basic Input/Output in Python

I am using notepad++ to write code for python and have a variable that I need to add 1 to for my next question. I am new to coding and would like to know how to achieve this. I would also like to phrase the question so that the answer (variable plus 1) is placed between text. Below, in my next line I would like it to read (for instance if the number is 3) How often do the 4 of you visit?
I have tried different ways of framing my variable +1 within parentheses and quotation marks but at best, when run, it shows exactly what I wrote not the answer to the equation.
famnumber = input ("How many of your family members still live there?")
I would like the answer to appear within text as noted above if possible.
Here is some code:
famadd = float(famnumber) + (1)
print ("Do all (famadd) of you get together often?")

There are several ways to do this. Note that when you you get something from input, it's a string. So using famnumber += 1 won't work, as you can't add a number to a string. So we have to turn the numeral string into an actual number. You can use int() to convert the input text into an integer. Then to include the value in a new string for your next question, use %d ('d' for 'digit'). This makes more sense than using a float, since people don't report family members in fractions of whole numbers (likewise, you don't want to say something like 'How often do the 4.0 of your meet?').
famnumber = input("How many of your family members still live there? ")
new_number = int(famnumber) + 1
next_question = input("How often do the %d of you meet? " % new_number)
Other ways to accomplish the same thing is converting 'famnumber' itself from a string to an integer, then back into a string to join in the sentence. Personally I'd go with the previous method, but this should give you an idea of some of the other things you can do in Python:
famnumber = input("How many of your family members still live there? ")
famnumber = int(famnumber)
famnumber += 1
next_question = input("How often do the " + str(famnumber) + " of you meet? ")
Also, while Notepad++ is a great text editor, if you're planning on doing a lot of Python scripting and writing, you may want to consider instead using an IDE, such as PyCharm, or IDLE which is included in the Python package. Tools like this make it easier for yourself to read and run your code.

I think you are looking for this kind of code:
famnumber = input("How many of your family members still live there?")
incremented_number = int(famnumber) + 1
next_number = input("How often do you " + str(incremented_number) + "visit")
print(next_number)
In the second line simply cast the input to int and increment it by one.
In the third line put the variable where you want it to be shown surrounded by + signs. You have to cast it to a string by using str() because the return type itself is a string. You can verify the type of the variable next_number simply by adding this line print(type(next_number))

zybooks for python, whotespace issue

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so I keep getting these whitespaces in my output. I have googled but nothing relevant comes back. i have attached my code and my output. can someone tell me what i am doing wrong. I dont have any space in my code, so why is it putting it in my ouput? this is a common problem form me in zybooks and i would really love to know what i am doing wrong so i can get this done and move on to the next assignment without spending 2 hours on a simple exercise.

If you're asking why there are spaces between your outputs of favoriteColor, etc., it's because Python's print function automatically adds spaces between each of its arguments. If you don't want this happening, you can change your code in two ways:
Either add a sep argument to your print, telling Python to add an empty separator between your arguments:
print('\nFirst password:', favoriteColor, chr(95), petName, sep='')
Or, you can append your arguments together yourself, as strings:
print('\nFirst password:', favoriteColor + chr(95) + petName)
Also, I should mention that if you need an underscore, you don't need to call chr(95) -- you can just write the string '_'.

pycharm exercise "Character Escaping": task completed but wrong syntax

I'm following the built-in tutorial in PyCharm Edu Edition and I'm stuck on Strings - Character Escaping.
In the exercise I'm asked to print the following:
The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet'n'Tasty"
by using character escaping, and here's my code:
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet\'n\'Tasty\"")
and it still gives me "Sorry the wrong string is printed". Honestly I don't think I printed a wrong string. Any help?

The last print statement uses single quotation marks, so the test wants you to only escape the single quotes that surround the 'n', so this line worked for me:
print('The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet\'n\'Tasty"')

You have to escape " because you use it in your print but your ' does not need to be protected.
Printing "\'n" and "'n" will output the same line but the escape, even if not visible, will generate something that is read by your exercise controller.
Try removing the \ before the '
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\"")
Another solution for string containing " or ' is to use triple " like this:
print("""The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet'n'Tasty\"""")
In this very case, the fact that the sentence is terminated by a " force to protect it again, but the " in the middle does not need to be protected.
You can also invert the use of ' and " to protect the ' or the "
print('The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet\'n\'Tasty"')
And use of 3 ' is possible too:
print('''The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet'n'Tasty"''')
If that still don't work, could you provide the assert test ?
Edit:
This seems to be the issue you are facing: http://iswwwup.com/t/d08b1b05234e/print-out-text-using-one-string-in-python.html
Comes from an ambigous test requirement / IDE behaviour.

dont_worry = "Don't worry about apostrophes"
print(dont_worry)
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet\"")
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\"")
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\"")

This problem can only be resolved if double quote is used(accoording to test file)
Anyway, if you try this it will help you to finish succesfully:
print("\'The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\" \'")

The instructions in those lessons are not clear at all and someone from jetbrains should look into this.
Even tho they don't mention it in the instructions, they also want you to edit the third line:
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet\"")
to this:
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\"")
No need to escape double quotes in the fourth line:
print('The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet\'n\'Tasty"')
So the complete code should look like this
dont_worry = "Don't worry about apostrophes"
print(dont_worry)
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweeet'n'Tasty\"")
print('The name of this ice-cream is "Sweeet\'n\'Tasty"')

Also, this worked for me:
print("The name of this ice-cream is \"Sweet'n'Tasty\"")
I'm new to coding (any kind), and so this is just a guess - the solution requires that you print only one string, so perhaps \"Sweet\'n\'Tasty\" is read as multiple strings? Like I said, real beginner. (also, could be that sweet was spelled wrong?)

I have the same problem.
The string is correct, but it still says I got the wrong string. Then I found that my answer is outside of the answer placeholder, just reset the task and the problem was solved.
print('The name of this ice-cream is "Sweet\'n\'Tasty"')

Having problems with python

I'm new to python and I'm trying to do a simple application (age calculator); I'm using Python 3.
This is my code:
date=2012
age=input("type in the date you born to calculate your age")
print ("your age is ") + (date-age)
It seems fine to me, but it gives me a TypeError: cannot concatente 'str' and 'int' objects.

Pass everything as a series of arguments to the print function:
print("your age is", date - int(age))
The print() function will convert the result of date - int(age) to a string for you. Note that you need to turn age (a string) into an integer first before you can subtract it from date though.

Python is strongly typed so you need to convert your data to the appropriate type.
age is a str (string), because it comes from an input. You should write:
date - int(age)
print ("your age is ") + (date-age) is not going to work for two reasons:
print in python 3 is a function so it only consider print ("your age is ") + (date-age) as its argument list;
Again, you're concatanating a str and an int, which is illegal in a strongly typed language.
The last conversion can be overridden since print does all the job for you:
print("your age is ", date - int(age))

input is going to give you a string. 2012, however is an int. They need to both be of arithmetic types to do mathematical operations on them. You want input to be a number, probably an int. Cast it as such with int(age).
So you would do print("Your age is ", date - int(age))
To nitpick your code, what if I was born in December 1992? Then your code would say I'm 20 even though I'd actually be 19. Also, what if I type in the actual date I was born, June 6, 1992?
These aren't relevant if you're just getting started and learning the syntax, but it's good to think about because you'll quickly find that those kinds of things are what will actually give you problems in programming, while the basic syntax and little technicalities tend to be things that you can look up on Google or use a cheat-sheet for (my preferred approach since I work with so many different languages with C-style syntax) after you gain familiarity with the language.

As you learn python, it's a good idea to take the error as it appears on the last line and feed that to a search engine.
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects is by no means unique.
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

The issue here is that you're trying to concatenate a string and an int. That is not supported by Python (or most other languages), and that is what the error message is telling you. What you've done is wrong because you are mixing up two different concepts
Incorrectly called the function - you should call it this way.
print('Your age is: ', date-age)
You used the + operator. This is an alternate method for concatenating a string and number, however to do that you have to first make sure they're both of the same type. In this case - String. You can do this by using the string function.
print('Your age is: ' + str(date-age))
A better way to have done this would be by using string formatting, mainly because it supports various formats without the need to convert them into strings as well as making a long string of text with multiple values easier.
print('Your age is: %d' % date-age)
You can read more about string formatting here.
:)

First thing you want to do is keep everything you want to print within the print() function brackets.
print ("your age is ") + (date-age)
Will not work.
This may work better
print("your age is" + str(date-int(age)))
As you move on with python you will realize why you can not do what you did with the print function.
Anyway I hope this was helpful for you.
Also you may notice in the code I used some functions; str() and int(). These are type conversion function. You may have came across these before or you will do very soon.

Try:
print("Your age is ",date-int(age))
str will cast your integer result to a string so that it can properly be "added" to the rest of the string.