How to ask user to enter name in Python

The below description enables us to understand how to ask the user to enter the name in Python.

Using the input() Function

The input() Function in Python allows the user to give input. When the program executes input(), it waits for the user to type something and press Enter.

The below link will make us understand more about input() function:

Take user defined input in Python

The input() function can take an optional string which you can pass to the input() to print a prompt message to the user.

The below code enables us to take input from the user of their name:

input("Enter your name:")

The above code will just take the input but will not print the input by the user.

So the below code enables us, also to print the input entered by the user:

print(input("Enter your name:"))

This code then print the input by the user

We can store the input too.

So we assign the input to a variable.

name=input("Enter your name: ")
print(name)

We have to make sure that the variable is readable and easy to understand.

The input should not contain any numbers or any special characters but the above code will take any input. So to get only Name without numbers and character we use blow code:

while True:
    name=input("Enter your name: ")
    if name.isalpha():
        print(name)
        break
    print("Invalid input. Name must contain only letters. Please try again.")

The while loop will keep on running until the user enters the name without numbers or another special character.

We used the isalpha() function to check whether the string consists of alphabetic characters only. When user input has any numbers or special characters then we get invalid message and also asking user to re-enter the name.

Example Scenario

User enters a valid name:

So if user inputs the “Ramu” then the program checks the “Ramu” is Alphabet or not. When it is true, the program will print “Ramu” and finish the loop.

User enters an invalid name:

The user inputs “Ramu123”, and the program checks for alphabetic characters and finds no alphabetic characters in “Ramu123”.

This will then print an error message saying that they attempted in the wrong way and will ask the user to try again.

This is how we ask the user to enter a name in Python.