On 2010-02-24 11:39 AM, Abigail wrote:
Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some
examples but I have hit a problem

a = raw_input("Enter a number" )
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in<module>
     a = raw_input("Enter a number" )
NameError: name 'raw_input' is not defined>>>a = raw_input("Enter a number
")

What am I doing wrong?

Python 3 changed the name of raw_input() to input() (and the old input() method that evaluates the string was simply thrown out as being redundant and unsafe).

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

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