need help with python

[adamurbas at hotmail.com]

ya so im pretty much a newb to this whole python thing... its pretty
cool but i just started today and im already having trouble.  i
started to use a tutorial that i found somewhere and i followed the
instructions and couldnt get the correct results.  heres the code
stuff...

temperature=input("what is the temperature of the spam?")
if temperature>50:
	print "the salad is properly cooked."
else:
	print "cook the salad some more."

ya i was trying to do that but when i told it what the spams
temperature was, it just turned off... well it wasnt working at all at
first until i realized that i hadnt been following the instructions
completely correctly and that i was supposed to type that code up in a
notepad then save and open with python... so ya thats when it asked me
what temperature the spam was and i typed a number then it just closed
itself... im not really sure what went wrong... itd be real nice if
someone would be like a mentor or something...