[Tutor] Runs in IDLE with F5, but not in Windows Command Prompt

[Marc Tompkins]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:40 AM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing that no one has addressed so far is why when I put quotes
> around my input, as in 'boB', the program does run in the command
> prompt.
>

Remember that input(), in Python 2, executes what's passed to it.  If your
input is boB, then Python tries to execute the statement boB - and unless
you've previously defined boB, Python doesn't know what to do with it.

If you put quotes around your input, Python recognizes it as a string
literal.  Python "executes" string literals by simply printing them to
standard output - try it at a Python prompt sometime - which is probably
not the behavior you were expecting, but doesn't throw an error either.
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