Jack Wallen takes you through your first steps in building a simple application to take user input and write it to a file. Python is an open source, interpreted, high-level programming language ...

Python has a way to convert one type of data to another. For example, turning a number into a string to print it, or converting user input (which is always a string) into an integer for calculations.

In the main thread, I occasionally need to ask the user to take some action. Which means I need to suppress the logger from actually printing until the user has a chance to make a decision.