The reason you need so much code is due to the way you're storing the information — namely differently named variables for each one — requires writing code specific to each one of them. To truly minimize the code need to solve the problem (for any number of students) is to store the data in a different manner — which will make it relatively easy to write a generic function for entering the information for any one of them.
In the code below the info for each student is stored in a list of instances of a "dataclass" named Student which can easily be defined using Python's dataclasses module — a utility to make structured classes specially for storing data which was added in version 3.7 (see PEP 557).
Once that's done, then writing a function like you want (get_student_info() in the code below) is a relatively simple matter because all it has to do is gather three pieces of information and pass them back to the caller.
from dataclasses import dataclass@dataclassclass Student:"""Class for keeping track of student's favorite number and gender.""" name: str favorite: int gender: strdef get_student_info():"""Prompt user for pieces of information needed to create an instance of the Student class and return it as a tuple.""" name = input("Please enter student's name or just the Enter key to quit: ") if not name: return None # Terminate data entry. while True: try: favorite = int(input('Please enter their favorite number between 1 and 100: ')) except ValueError: print('sorry, that is not a valid integer') continue if 1 <= favorite <= 100: break else: print('Number is not in range of 1 to 100, please try again') continue while True: gender = input('Please enter their gender identity ("boy" or "girl"): ') if gender in ("boy", "girl"): break else: print('Sorry, that is not an acceptable gender identity, please try again') return name, favorite, gender# Create a list of Students.students = list()print('Enter student information for list\n')while True: info = get_student_info() print() if not info: break students.append(Student(*info))print()print('Student list created:')for i, student in enumerate(students, start=1): print(f'{i}: {student}')Sample usage:
Enter student information for listPlease enter student's name or just the Enter key to quit: JohnPlease enter their favorite number between 1 and 100: 1Please enter their gender identity ("boy" or "girl"): boyPlease enter student's name or just the Enter key to quit: MarkPlease enter their favorite number between 1 and 100: 50Please enter their gender identity ("boy" or "girl"): boyPlease enter student's name or just the Enter key to quit:Student list created:1: Student(name='John', favorite=1, gender='boy')2: Student(name='Mark', favorite=50, gender='boy')Press any key to continue . . .