Newbie coding question
alister
alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com
Thu Jun 26 14:58:20 EDT 2014
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:53:35 +0200, Martin S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been following the tutorial here
> http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/
> But when I get to section 1.10 there is
>
> person = input('Enter your name: ')
>
> However this generates an error
>
>
>>>> person = input('Enter your name: ')
> Enter your name: hi
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
> person = input('Enter your name: ')
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'hi' is not defined
>>>>
>>>>
> I have no idea what I am doing wrong with this - it look correct to me.
>
> I'm obviously doing something stupid, anyone can suggest what?
>
> /M .
As a quick guess you are using python 2.X when the tutorial is written
for python 3.X
Input is one of the incompatible changes between 2.x & 3.x
try raw_input instead (or install Python 3)
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