raw_input

[Alex Martelli]

"Brendhan Horne" <brendhanhorne at bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> >>> raw_input ("Enter your name:")
> Enter your name:Brendhan
> 'Brendhan'
> >>> print name
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in ?
>     print name
> NameError: There is no variable named 'name'
>
> Okay What did I do wrong it should have printed my name after the print
name
> command.

You did not bind the result of raw_input to any variable, in
particular not to one named 'name'.  Change the first
statement to:

>>> name = raw_input("Enter your name:")


Alex