Assigning user input operators to variables

Question

I'm trying to set up a situation in which the user inputs a number and an operator and the output is the (user number) (user operator) on a list of 1 through 10.

This is hard to explain, but here's the code:

num = int(input("Enter a number greater than 1: "))

oper = input("Choose a math operation (+, -, *): ")
for i in range(1, 11):
    print(num)

And I get lost there. I want to get something that looks like

num   oper   1   =   (whatever num and the operator and 1 equal)
num   oper   2   =   (whatever num and the operator and 2 equal)

And so on.

So my question is: How do you assign a user-inputted operator to a variable?

Answer 1

Another possibility is to use the operator module to set up a dictionary of operator functions, like so:

import operator

operator_dict = {
    '+': operator.add,
    '-': operator.sub,
    '*': operator.mul,
}
num = int(input("Enter a number greater than 1: "))

oper = input("Choose a math operation (+, -, *): ")
for i in range(1, 11):
    print(operator_dict[oper](float(num), i))

An example session:

Enter a number greater than 1: 3
Choose a math operation (+, -, *): *
3.0
6.0
9.0
12.0
15.0
18.0
21.0
24.0
27.0
30.0