I'm a newbie and I'm stumped...

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Dwight GoldWinde <Dwight at goldwinde.com> wrote:
> Please help.
>
> I am running Python 3.4 on my Mac mini, OS X 10.10.2, using Coderunner 2 as
> my editor.
>
> Here’s the code:
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> word = (input('Enter a word ‘))
>
> When running this inside of Coderunner, I get the follow error, after
> entering the word ‘serendipity’:
>
> Enter a word serendipity
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "test short.py", line 2, in <module>
>
>     word = (input('Enter a word '))
>
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>
> NameError: name 'serendipity' is not defined
>
>

The error you are getting is the error you would get if you were using
python 2.x.  So, are you sure you are running 3.4?  Can you go to a
shell and run it from command line?

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