Variables and the while command [closed]

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I’m attempting to program a small tip calculator for restaurants, I decided to add a confirm feature so that people could fiddle with the tip % before confirming, that way they wouldn’t have to reinput everything each time
but I keep getting an error on line 11 saying there are too many arguments.

Patron = float(input("How many of you ate together? "))
Cost = float(input("What was the total of the meal after tax? "))
Happy = False
while not (Happy):
    Tip = float(input("What percentage tip do you plan on leaving? (just the number please) "))
    C_Tip = Cost*(Tip/100) #lets add a way to confirm the value of the tip, looked up how the while command works
    C_Total = C_Tip+Cost
    Satisfied = float (input ("The tip will come out to be $", C_Tip, 'bringing the total to',C_Total,"is that ok?" )) #now realizing that I don't know what the code should do if they answer no
if Satisfied == ("Y") or Happy == ("yes") or Happy == ("Yes") or Happy == ("y"): #redundancies
    Happy = True 
else: #catching an error when I try to assign another value to "Happy" I'm assuming because it's identifying as true / false, just need to replace variable
    print("Alright...")#forgot to float the input in line 11, lets see
    #keeps saying it's expecting one argument but is recieving three

I’m expecting the code to loop back to input the percentage until the person is satisfied with the total cost

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input ("The tip will come out to be $", C_Tip, 'bringing the total to',C_Total,"is that ok?" )

This is the problem. You can pass multiple arguments to print() and it will print them all, but input() doesn’t work like that.

Instead of using commas, you can use string concatenation + like this:

input ("The tip will come out to be $" + str(C_Tip) + ' bringing the total to ' + str(C_Total) + " is that ok?")

Or, more conveniently, you can use an f-string:

input (f"The tip will come out to be ${C_Tip} bringing the total to {C_Total} is that ok?" )

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