How to input multiple values from user in one line in Python?

For instance, in C we can do something like this:

// Reads two values in one line 
scanf("%d %d", &x, &y)  

One solution is to use raw_input() two times.

x, y = raw_input(), raw_input()

Another solution is to use split()

x, y = raw_input().split()

Note that we don’t have to explicitly specify split(‘ ‘) because split() uses any whitespace characters as delimiter as default.

One thing to note in above Python code is, both x and y would be of string. We can convert them to int using another line

x, y = [int(x), int(y)]

# We can also use  list comprehension
x, y = [int(x) for x in [x, y]]

Below is complete one line code to read two integer variables from standard input using split and list comprehension

# Reads two numbers from input and typecasts them to int using  
# list comprehension 
x, y = [int(x) for x in raw_input().split()]   

# Reads two numbers from input and typecasts them to int using  
# map function 
x, y = map(int, raw_input().split()) 

Note that in Python 3, we use input() in place of raw_input().

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