On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:53:35 +0200, Martin S wrote: > Hi, > > I've been following the tutorial here > http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/ > But when I get to section 1.10 there is > > person = input('Enter your name: ') > > However this generates an error > > >>>> person = input('Enter your name: ') > Enter your name: hi > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> > person = input('Enter your name: ') > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'hi' is not defined >>>> >>>> > I have no idea what I am doing wrong with this - it look correct to me. > > I'm obviously doing something stupid, anyone can suggest what? > > /M .
As a quick guess you are using python 2.X when the tutorial is written for python 3.X Input is one of the incompatible changes between 2.x & 3.x try raw_input instead (or install Python 3) -- You can't get there from here. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
