[Tutor] Help with converting a string into a integer

[Carmen Salcedo]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the feedback. I figured it out. Yes, I'm using python 2.7 (typo in the last email).

Have a great day.

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On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:44 AM, "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 31/10/2013 02:00, Carmen Salcedo wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I hope you're having a great week.  I'm working on this program that
>> converts strings to integers. Can someone please help me out? :) Below
>> is the program:
>> 
>> def main():
>>     selection = input("Enter you choice. Enter 1 " +
>>                    "for Phone Translator or 2 for Backward String.")
>>     while selection != 1 and selection !=2:
>>         print "Invalid choice"
> 
> I can tell from the print that you're using Python 2.x.  For reasons that I won't go into here never, ever use input, use raw_input instead.  So try that and when you hit problems please get back to us, giving the data that Bob Gailer asked for earlier.
> 
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> 
> Mark Lawrence
> 
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