In my on again, off again studies of Python I am stumped on something
that ought to be trivial, but I am not seeing it. When I run this
program (only the part up to where the error occurs is shown):
import random
numberToGuess = random.randint(1, 20)
numberOfGuesses = 0
print("Hello! What is your name?")
playerName = input()
...everything works fine from IDLE. However, in the Windows command prompt:
E:\Programs\Python\IYOCGwPy\Ch4>python -V
Python 3.3.1
E:\Programs\Python\IYOCGwPy\Ch4>guess.py
Hello! What is your name?
boB
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\Programs\Python\IYOCGwPy\Ch4\guess.py", line 13, in <module>
playerName = input()
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'boB' is not defined
E:\Programs\Python\IYOCGwPy\Ch4>
This has me totally puzzled. I thought it might have something to do
with the fact that I also have Python 2.7 installed, so I removed it
from the path variable and also did the check for version that you see
above.
Okay, the thought occurred to me to put my input in quotes: 'boB' ,
and I see this works. But why does the command prompt force me to put
my strings inside quotes? Perhaps I am too sleepy. It seems I should
understand why this is so from some other questions I have asked, but
I am not putting it together.
Thanks in advance!
boB
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