What is wrong with the following, apparently almost straight out of Python
Programming
by Michael Dawson?
# Declare variable and initialise (overkill!).
name = "ABCDEFG"
# Get value.
name = input("What is your name? ")
# Echo value
print(name)
# Issue greeting
print("Hi ", name)
Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32 Type
"copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
What is your name? Keith
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Files\Staff\Keith
Lucas\Education\Python\Learn_Input_01.py", line 5, in <module>
name = input("What is your name? ")
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'Keith' is not defined
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