Creating a list from input using while loop

Question

Im new to python and trying to convert input to a list and I am required to use a while loop but I keep getting an EOF error.

def get_grades():
    value = float(input('Enter grade:\n'))
    grades = []
    while value > 0:
        grades.append(value)
        value = float(input('Enter grade:\n'))
    return(get_grades)

Christian · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-17 21:12:08Z

1

I think you want to return the list of grades from that function, so you could change return(get_grades) to return grades (no need for the parentheses). When you have return(get_grades) you're actually returning the address that the get_grades function is stored at in memory.

So with that change the code looks like:

def get_grades():
    value = float(input('Enter grade:\n'))
    grades = []
    while value > 0:
        grades.append(value)
        value = float(input('Enter grade:\n'))
    return grades

print(get_grades())

You can run it with the following inputs and see those printed out to the console:

Enter grade:
30
Enter grade:
40
Enter grade:
50
Enter grade:
0
[30.0, 40.0, 50.0]

edited Sep 17, 2019 at 21:12

answered Sep 17, 2019 at 21:04

Christian

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