[Tutor] Capturing user input

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

Works for me:

>>> name = raw_input ("What is your name? ")
What is your name? pat
>>> print name
pat
>>>

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
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From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
Adrian at home
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:08 AM
To: tutor@python.org
Subject: [Tutor] Capturing user input

Hi All

I am a total newbie to programming, but for the life of me I cannot
understand why this will not work.  I am using IDLE and a tutorial, the
following code is to capture the user input:

name = raw_input ("What is your name? ")
print name

I cannot get the variable "name" to print to the screen, after the prompt
displays and the user types in their name.  It seems straight forward
enough, am I missing something obvious here?

thanks in advance for any response.

Adrian


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