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Hi I wanted to get some help on how I could solve this python problem as I am just a beginner in python.
allow the user to enter their school code and last names and will output their username in the school format (up to 5 letters from their lastname, or 4 if there are any spaces, followed by their school id number)

this is the code I have done so far:

person = input("Enter your last name: ")
school_ID = int(input("Enter your school number: "))
def count_chars(txt):
	result = 0
	for char in txt:
		result += 1
	return result
print(person, school_ID)

Any help in how I should move forward would be much appreciated.

(Oct-28-2020, 12:40 AM)mohan10216 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi I wanted to get some help on how I could solve this python problem as I am just a beginner in python.
allow the user to enter their school code and last names and will output their username in the school format (up to 5 letters from their lastname, or 4 if there are any spaces, followed by their school id number)

this is the code I have done so far:

person = input("Enter your last name: ")
school_ID = int(input("Enter your school number: "))
def count_chars(txt):
	result = 0
	for char in txt:
		result += 1
	return result
print(person, school_ID)

Any help in how I should move forward would be much appreciated.

Perhaps, I didn't understand what is the actual assignment, but this seems to be what you need:

last_name = input("Enter your last name: ")
school_ID = int(input("Enter your school number: "))
print(last_name[:5], school_ID)

This code will print only 5 letters of the last name followed by ID number.

Proposals don't handle if there are any spaces. @Askic response assumes you have covered slices of strings (that colon format), where I am thinking they are trying to teach you loops. Have you covered slices?
Suggest:
get your inputs like you are doing, but would not bother converting to an int
Get the first 5 characters of the last name, using slice notation if that is allowed
Remove a space if present (hint - look at the replace function and replace with '')
concatenate the result with the school_id.
print