What is wrong with my code on calculating area of square/rectangle?

Question

shape = input("Square or Rectangle ? : ")

width = float(input("Enter The Width : "))

if input in shape :

 "Square, square"

 area = width * width

 print ("")

 print ("The Area Of The Given Square is" + area)








length = float(input("Enter The Area : "))

area = width * length

print ("")

print ("The Area Of The given Rectangle is ", area)

input("Enter To Exit")

I am new to Python scripting and wanted to make a simple py that calculates the area of a square or rectangle. But when I open it, it asks for the "Square or Rectangle ?" I input Square, then it asks for width and it abruptly closes. Same happens when I put in Rectangle. Again I am a noobie at python and just going off of what I can find. I am not sure on how to frame a question for this to search and find an answer so I resorted to making one.

Answer 1

This can work:

shape = raw_input("Square or Rectangle : ")

if shape == 'Square':
    width = float(raw_input("Enter The Width : "))
    area = width * width
    print ("")
    print ("The Area Of The Given Square is " + str(area))

if shape == 'Rectangle':
    width = float(raw_input("Enter The Width : "))
    length = float(raw_input("Enter The length : "))
    area = width * length
    print ("")
    print ("The Area Of The given Rectangle is " + str(area))

Rest you can improve accordingly.

Answer 2

There are a couple of problems with your code.

1) The condition

if input in shape:

You never defined a variable "input". Furthermore, I'm not real sure why you are checking a condition here anyways. If you're trying to verify that shape is either a rectangle or square consider this code instead:

if shape in ["rectangle", "square"]:

2) The code

"Square, square"

does nothing, and is in fact invalid syntax.

3) The line

print("The area of the given square is" + area)

is invalid string concatenation for the print function. (note you can concatenate this way OUTSIDE of the print function) Use commas instead.

print("The area of the given square is", area)