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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Reading inputs from the user


Now, we will discuss a simple program where we ask the user to enter two numbers and the program returns the sum of two numbers. For now, we are going to pretend that the user always provides a valid input.

In Python, user input to a Python program can be provided using the input() function (https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#input):

    var = input("Enter the first number: ")

In the preceding example, we are making use of the input() function to seek the user's input of the number. The input() function takes the prompt ("Enter the first number: ") as an argument and returns the user input. In this example, the user input is stored in the variable, var. In order to add two numbers, we make use of the input() function to request user to provide two numbers as input:

    var1 = input("Enter the first number: ") 
    var2 = input("Enter the second number: ") 
    total = int(var1) + int(var2) 
    print("The sum is %d" % total)

We are making use of the...