input
takes a prompt
string as its argument, which it will print automatically, but print
returns None
; it is this that gets printed by input
. Your code is equivalent to:
prompt = print(...) # prompt == None
ans = int(input(prompt))
Instead, use str.format
to build the prompt and pass it straight to input
:
ans = int(input('{0}x{1}='.format(multi, num)))