Get input directly as a number?

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Pedroski55
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May-05-2020, 10:56 AM

In my little, amateurish Python routines, I often need to get a number as input, so I do:

Quote:num = input('just enter a number ')
startNum = int(num)

Today, I just thought, "Is it possible to get a number directly?"

Is it?

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Get input directly as a number? - by Pedroski55 - May-05-2020, 10:56 AM

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