[Tutor] Newbie question re: user interaction

[Douglas Sparling]

>Anyway, what I'm writing to ask about is, how do I do the equivalent of the
following BASIC function in Python?
>
>10 INPUT "What is your name?" N$
>20 PRINT "Hello, " N$ "!"


name = raw_input("What is your name? ")
print "Hello, " +  name + "!"