ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '7 1 3 4 1 7' . Hackerrank question showing error

Question

'''

listSize=int(input())
arrayList=list()
dist=listSize
k=int
i=int
for i in range(1,listSize):
    arrayNo=int(input())
    arrayList.append(arrayNo)
for i in range(1,listSize):
    k=i+1
    for k in range(1,listSize):
        if(arraylist[i]==arrayList[k]&k-i<dist):
            dist=k-i
        k+=1
    i+=1
print(dist)

'''

I'm getting an error Main que is: Print out the minimum difference of indices having same value element value Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "Solution.py", line 7, in <module>

    arrayNo=int(input())

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '7 1 3 4 1 7'

Answer 1

Your argument to int() is a string that contains multiple "integers" separated by spaces. Look at documentation for the split() method on strings to split your input into the pieces you want, then apply int() on them.