Bob Piton wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:34:56 -0500, Kevin F wrote: >>i have no idea what you are hinting at, can you please just tell me what i >>need to change? > > > I know how you feel; it's brutal trying to get elementary information from > this group.
You could try the python-tutor list, it tends to give more focused answers to newbie questions than this group, which is pretty newbie-friendly but does have a tendency to veer widely from the original question. > Now if only somebody would tell me, with elementary examples, how you > write to the thing called 'stdout' and how you read from 'stdin'. raw_input() prompts to stdout and reads from stdin. print outputs to stdout: In [53]: print raw_input('What is your name? ') What is your name? Kent Kent or import sys and use sys.stdin and sys.stdout. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list