Multiple loops

[Paulman]

Hello, I'm writing a short program in Python 3.8 (Pycharm) with the following target: welcomes users in a party as they check in.
The steps are the following:
1- Ask the user how many guests are in the group.
2- Using a loop which runs based upon how many guests were input above, ask users for their name.
3- Print out for each user “Hello {name}, you are person {number} to check in today”
Example input:
2
Tom
George
Output:
Hello Tom, you are person 1 to check in today
Hello George, you are person 2 to check in today

I wrote the following:

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# Step1: acquisition of the number of guests in the group print("Please type how many guests are in your group:") inputnum1=int(input()) print(type(inputnum1)) print("   ") # Step2: loop for collecting the names of the guests start=0 end=inputnum1 step=1 for idx in range(start,end,step):   print("Please write your name here:")   inputnames=input()   print(inputnames) print("   ") # Step3: loop for the welcoming message of each guest: Hello {name}, you are person {number} to check in today names=inputnames id_guest=0 start=0 end=inputnum1 step=1 for idx in range(start,end,step):  id_guest+=1  idguest=str(id_guest)  print(f"Hello "+names[idx]+", you are person "+idguest+" to check in today")[/color]

The problem with the above is that while the number (idguest) is incrementing, the names don't.
Can anybody help with this issue?
Thanks,
Paul

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[bowlofred]

I presume you want to keep the names in a list or similar structure. I don't see that happening in your code.

The step 2 loop runs the name input multiple times, but each time assigns it to inputnames, so each time through the loop it's just a string overwriting the previous input. Later you do names=inputnames, which seems to have no purpose. Names is also a string, so you can't index into it.

Probably you want to append each name to a list in the second loop.

[Paulman]

Thanks, so how can I get for each line the different names, instead of having only the last inserted name repeated all the times?

[bowlofred]

As I mentioned, you need to put them into a collection (like a list), not assign them to a scalar str variable.

I would do something like this:

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total_guests=int(input("Please type how many guests are in your group: ")) print(" ")   guest_names = [] for idx in range(total_guests):     guest_names.append(input((f"Guest {idx+1}, Please write your name here: ")))     print(" ")   for guest_number, guest_name in enumerate(guest_names, start=1):     print(f"Hello {guest_name}, you are person {guest_number} to check in today")

[Paulman]

That's a great solution. Now I see where I was messing up.
Many thanks for your help, really appreciated!!