User-defined variables / compilation

[Hans Nowak]

On 20 Apr 99, Ce'Nedra took her magical amulet and heard Jan Thomczek say:

>Hello,
>
>I´m new to this newsgroup and maybe you´ll say "Wow! What a stupid
>question..." I think you´re right-

No way... There are no stupid questions... Although that "why no +=" question 
comes pretty close... ;^)

>I used to program in Turbo-Pascal 6. I installed Python on my NT
>4.0-machine.
>
>I wonder how is the procedure to define the varibles by a user like
>"readln(x);" I´m sure there is a simple way to do so.

I'm not sure what you mean... do you mean, how to write a function that is 
able to change the value of x? Since that's what ReadLn does...

Th answer is: you can't. You can use a function instead; in this case, Python 
has raw_input for this, and you just call it like this:

myname = raw_input("Hi! What's your name? ")

which is more or less equivalent to Turbo's

Write('What''s your name? '); ReadLn(MyName);

>Another question is: How do I *compile* the lines I have written to an
>*.exe-file?

There are some tools for this... I never used them myself though. Look into 
DejaNews for 'freeze'. I'm sure others can tell you more about this.


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