[Tutor] help

[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Chris Schiro <cschiro.gc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am completely new to programming aside from working with basic many years
> ago. I purchased a Python book for beginners so I could start from scratch
> which has been walking me through just fine until: writing a program to
> interact with user for feedback:
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> name=input(“What is your name? “)
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> I have found that this line will return an error every time while running
> the completed program, unless I enter a number. If I enter a numeric value
> the program will continue on as written.
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> I have followed the code exactly per the book. What is the proper coding in
> this scenario?

What is going on is that you are presumably running some version of
Python 2, whereas the book you are using is intended for Python 3. In
Python 2, to get the same result as input() in Python 3, you have to
use raw_input instead.

name=raw_input(“What is your name? “)

Alternatively, you could of course install Python 3.1 instead of
Python 2.7 (or whatever version you are running).

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com