"""
Ex. 4.6 from "A Primer on..."

This is a slightly more advanced version than
the exercise asks for. We use a while-loop to
repeatedly ask for input and print the associated
output, until the user types 'q'.
"""


while True:       
    value = input("Provide some input ('q' to quit): ")
    if value == 'q':
        break               #stop the loop 
    result = eval(value)
    print(f'The result is {result}, with type {type(result)}')

"""
Terminal> python objects_qa.py 
Provide some input ('q' to quit): "test"
The result is test, with type <class 'str'>
Provide some input ('q' to quit): 5 * 5
The result is 25, with type <class 'int'>
Provide some input ('q' to quit): [1,2,3]
The result is [1, 2, 3], with type <class 'list'>
Provide some input ('q' to quit): q
"""