''' Purpose: demonstrate string acquisition (the getting of input)
'''

# get input

# Introduction to input!

reply = input( 'Tell me a favorite word: ' )

# We store what the user typed as input into the variable reply.
# input( prompt ) hands back what the user typed as a string
# If you assign the input( prompt ) to a variable (like reply),
# whatever the user types is stored in reply!

# input( prompt ) prints the prompt (which is a string)
# You type the user input and hit enter!

print()

# compute length of word

# len() is important!!!
# len ( some string ) gives you the number of characters of that string.
n = len( reply ) # The len() function finds the length of a sequence.
# So I typed in "weird" and "weird" is stored in reply and the
# the length of "weird" (the string) is 5
# characters! Characters aren't just letters. 'Happy birthday'
# is 14 characters including the space (13 letters 1 space)

# give feedback

print( 'Did you know that', reply, 'has length', n )
# Prints strings and the variable values separated by spaces
# since commas allow you to print different types (strings, numbers, etc.)
# all on one line!