A newbie that needs some HELP

[Don Arnold]

On 25-Nov-2001, "The News" <lbaker at hot.rr.com> wrote:


> Now on to the problem.
> I'm working on lists.  Trying to figure them out.  So I decide to write
> this
> little algorithim for user inserted lists.  My proto goes as follows:
>
> monty = []
> number = input("How many Monty's are there?")
> for x in range(1,number):
>     mln = input("Name a Monty?")
>     monty.append(aln)
> print monty
>
> It gets through it but prints out some wierd stuff along with each listed
> monty.  Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Also, when I try to get
> it to repeat x at the end of "Name a Monty #", x  it gives me an error.
> How
> could I get around that?
>

Use 'raw_input()' instead of 'input()'.

Don