[Tutor] Newbie question

[Dylan Bennett]

Hello, everyone. I just joined this list. I'm an instructor at a private
boarding school and I'm looking at implementing Python as the introductory
computer language for the students in the computer classes. (Right now we
use QuickBASIC, which is rather out-dated.) I am new to Python myself. Since
I'm exploring different ways of teaching Python to someone who has zero
programming experience, I have been looking through some of the online
resources. I am currently following a tutorial that was linked on the
python.org site. If any of you happen to know of excellent resources for
teaching Python to students with zero programming experience, please let me
know.

Now to my question. :) So I'm going through this tutorial and it says to do
the following:

s = raw_input("Who are you? ")

That should pass what the user inputs to the variable s. However, when I run
the program it gets to where I can input data, but then after I hit enter,
it doesn't do anything. I just goes to the next line. Nothing I try will
actually end it accepting input. It just keeps accepting input no matter how
many times I hit enter. I even tried ctrl-enter, shift-enter, etc. Oh yeah,
and I'm using IDLE in a Windows environment. Anyone have any ideas on why
this isn't working?

--Dylan