#comments

[Dan Bishop]

Ken Parkes <cbuffer at NOSPAMrosecott.ukfsn.org> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.09.13.21.27.31.291385 at NOSPAMrosecott.ukfsn.org>...
> Hi,
> 	New to this game.  Have tried the following.
> 
>   data=raw_input("Type something  ") # spaces after "something"
>   myInput=data

This isn't related to your question, but why are you using two
assignment statements when one will do?

   myInput = raw_input("Type something ")