On Jun 2, 6:54 pm, greenflame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First I should start with some introductory comments. > > When I first learned about programming, I started with BASIC, QBASIC > to be more accurate. While I was at that stage, I learned about the > INPUT command. I used it abundantly. > > Ok so now for the actual issue. > > I would like to implement something like the INPUT command from BASIC. > I failed to find something on the python website documentation for > beginners.
var = raw_input("Enter a value for var: ") That gives you a string; if you want a number, convert it by using the int or float constructor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list