[Tutor] Issue w/ string input "for", "not", "while", "else" etc.

[Alan Gauld]

On 26/11/13 16:15, Rafael Knuth wrote:

> YourName = input(str("What is your name?"))
> print("Hello", YourName)
>
> When executing the program, in case the user input is "for", "not",
> "True", "while" Python interprets that as a command

Sounds like you are using Python v2.
You need to yuse raw_input() instead of input().
In Python v3 the old input was removed and raw_input
renamed to input()

Are you by any chance reading a v3 tutorial but using v2?

BTW the str() in

 > YourName = input(str("What is your name?"))

does nothing since "What is your name?" is already a string

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