[Tutor] this is hard

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, melvin terry wrote:

> why wont this work? When you type 1 noting happenes
>
> #welcome
> print "welcome ryan I just wanted you to have a second calculator!"
> print "here you can ahose from what you would like o ind the rarea of..."
> input = raw_input("type 1 for a rectangle")
> if input == 1:
>      heigth = input("please type height here:")
>      width = input ("please type width here:")
>      area = height*width
>      print "The area is", area


Hi Melvin,


Can you explain why the program uses raw_input() here:

> input = raw_input("type 1 for a rectangle")

while, later on in the program, it uses the input() function?  There's a
difference between the two functions that's causing the bug in the
program.



Best of wishes!