ONE input => THREE outputs

[Tricia279]

Hi there,
I face the problem that I have no idea yet, how to program this:

pos0 = input() example: pos0 = 160

pos1 and pos2 should also get the same what is in pos0. => pos1 = 160 and pos2 = 160

What kind of method I can use to program this ?

I really appreciate your answers

[DeaD_EyE]

It looks silly, but works:

pos0 = pos1 = pos2 = input()

another way:

pos0 = input()
pos1 = pos0
pos2 = pos0

If you change the value of pos0, pos1 and pos2 won't change.

[buran]

Just to mention that, instead of creating multiple names (variables) like pos0, pos1, pos2... it may be better to use some sort of collection. It depends on what you want to do with pos0, pos1, pos2...

[RubenF85]

It looks silly, but works:

pos0 = pos1 = pos2 = input()

another way:

pos0 = input()
pos1 = pos0
pos2 = pos0

If you change the value of pos0, pos1 and pos2 won't change.

Think you just need to be a little careful - your alternative option works great for scalar variables but with lists, objects (and I think tuples as well) this will cause issues as this copies the position reference of the variable and not the value of the variable

Kind regards
RF

[DeaD_EyE]

For mutable objects, copy.copy and/or copy.deepcopy can be used.
Lists, Dicts, Sets have a copy method.
Lists can also copied with:

import copy


my_list_1 = [1, 2, 3]
my_list_2 = my_list_1[:]
my_list_3 = my_list_1.copy()
my_list_4 = copy.copy(my_list_1) 

Lists can keep also lists and other objects.
To copy them together with the nested content, copy.deepcopy should be used.

import copy


nested_list_1 = [1, 2, [3, 4, 5], 6]
nested_list_2 = nested_list_1[:] # the inner list is not copied
nested_list_3 = copy.deepcopy(nested_list_1) # inner list is also copied

nested_nested_list_1 = [[[1]], [[2]]]
nested_nested_list_2 = copy.deepcopy(nested_nested_list_1)

# now changing the 1 to 66
nested_nested_list_2[0][0][0] = 66

# nested_nested_list_1 has the original value 1
# nested_nested_list_2 has instead 66
print(nested_nested_list_1)
print(nested_nested_list_2)

Docs for copy module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html

[Tricia279]

It looks silly, but works:

pos0 = pos1 = pos2 = input()

another way:

pos0 = input()
pos1 = pos0
pos2 = pos0

If you change the value of pos0, pos1 and pos2 won't change.

=> thank you for your inspiration, I made it with a variable:
var = input()
pos0 = var
pos1 = var
pos2 = var

[perfringo]

=> thank you for your inspiration, I made it with a variable:
var = input()
pos0 = var
pos1 = var
pos2 = var

I hope that you do realize that this will not deliver result(s) you defined in your initial post. You wanted int but this will deliver str.

To illustrate problem and provide alternative using dictionary:

>>> initial = input('Enter initial value: ')
Enter initial value: 160
>>> initial
'160'
>>> positions = dict.fromkeys((0, 1, 2), initial)    # range(3) can be used instead of (0, 1, 2)
>>> positions
{0: '160', 1: '160', 2: '160'}
>>> positions[0]
'160'
>>> positions[2] = 160
>>> positions
{0: '160', 1: '160', 2: 160}