[Tutor] reading strings

[Richard Chamberlain]

Hi Ankur,

Probably something like:

name=raw_input("What's your name? ");
print name

Richard
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: [Tutor] reading strings


> Hi,
>     I am new to python (1 day).I have downloaded the python for 
> windows platform ver 1.5. Well i was tinkering around with it for 
> some time reading the tutorial that came along with it . Well , i 
> couldnt figure out 1 thing . How do i input  strings in python?
> In other words what is the python equivalent of the followig piece of 
> code :-
> print "Whats your name?";#perl code
> $name=<STDIN>;
> chomp($name);
> ****************************************
> print "Whats your name?"; /* C code */
> gets(name);/* name[10] defined earlier */
> 
> i  tried with input but with no success.
> Thanks for answering a newbie question.
> ankur
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