[Tutor] reading strings

[ankban4@indya.com]

Hi,
    I am new to python (1 day).I have downloaded the python for 
windows platform ver 1.5. Well i was tinkering around with it for 
some time reading the tutorial that came along with it . Well , i 
couldnt figure out 1 thing . How do i input  strings in python?
In other words what is the python equivalent of the followig piece of 
code :-
print "Whats your name?";#perl code
$name=<STDIN>;
chomp($name);
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print "Whats your name?"; /* C code */
gets(name);/* name[10] defined earlier */

i  tried with input but with no success.
Thanks for answering a newbie question.
ankur


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