[Tutor] Beginning String Problems

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/01/2020 23:22, William Dickey wrote:

> first_name = str(input("Please enter your first name: "))

> I enter william and I get this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call):
>     File "C:\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx", line 3, in <module>
>        first_name = str(input("Please enter your first name: "))
>     File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'william' is not defined
> 
> I am using Windows 10 64 bit, Atom text editor, Python 3.4.

How are you running the code?
The error you get is what I would expect if you were using Python v2.
If you are just typing

python script.py

Then you may be picking up a default v2 install of Python.
Try changing the command to

python3 script.py

There is also a tool called py.exe, which is supposed to help
with this kind of thing on Windows, but I've never used it
so don't know how it works...

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