[Tutor] interactive mode questions

[Timo]

Op 25-12-09 17:49, rick schreef:
> I'm working my way through Mr Lutz's "Learning Python", and I come to
> this snippet (page 271):
>
> while True:
>      reply = input('Enter text:')
>    
Try this:
     reply = raw_input('Enter text: ')

Cheers,
Timo

>      if reply == 'stop': break
>      print(reply.upper())
>
> which works "as advertised" in an interactive session, but not in a
> script.   Yes, I tried tossing the script to both versions of
> interpreter, it doesn't work with either 2.6 or 3.1.
>
> text given as input results in NameError: name 'text' is not defined.
> numerical input results in AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute
> 'upper'
>
> either way, enclosing the input in quotes works.
>
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