[Tutor] Capturing user input

[Adrian at home]

Alan

Yep, you are correct.  I upgraded and viola! it works great, thanks -:)
Thanks for the responses and D-man thanks for the info.

Adrian

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From: <alan.gauld@bt.com>
To: <adrianhome@webspinners.co.uk>; <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Tutor] Capturing user input


> > 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
>
> There was a bug in early versions of IDLE (pre 0.5) which means
> raw_input() did not always work. Try running the script at a
> DOS Python prompt and see if it works there. If so its IDLE that's
> broken, you should ideally upgrade your Python version or at
> least upgrade IDLE to v0.5
>
> Assuming you are on an earlier version of course!
>
> Alan G
>
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