[Tutor] Beginning String Problems

[Mats Wichmann]

On 1/1/20 6:01 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 6:15 PM William Dickey <wpdickey at usc.edu> wrote:

>> I am using Windows 10 64 bit, Atom text editor, Python 3.4.

this has *nothing* to do with your issue, which I can't think about 
because I have to finish putting dinner on the table :)   but... don't 
use 3.4.  It's quite old, going on six years if I recall.  3.8 is the 
current release.  If your material says "install 3.4", you should be 
able to safely use 3.8 in all but some real edge cases that no course 
would likely ever touch (the alternative is not true: something written 
for 3.8 might hit more issues using 3.4).

> 
> I am just a hobbyist programmer.  But when I copy and pasted your code
> as given in your email into a file and then ran it in the terminal
> (I'm on Linux, using Python 3.7.5) everything worked well:
> 
> bob at Dream-Machine1:~/Projects/Tutor_Help$ python3 ./test.py
> Please enter your first name: boB
> Please enter your middle name: Vincent
> Please enter your last name: Stepp
> Bob V Stepp
> 
> So I am puzzled.  Are you certain that you do not have your name
> "william" written on the top line of your Python file?  If yes, then
> Python will see that as an undefined variable name, since you wouldn't
> have assigned anything to it.  That is my best guess anyway.
> 
> BTW, for a first time poster I feel you did a rather good job asking
> your question!
> 
> HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!!!
>