Hi all,

In the last couple of months i got myself into programming. At first I wanted to learn java, so I spent a several spent months, along money trying learn that, but then I found myself making to many errors and overall not really understaning it. I decided to look into other programming languges, and found that python, which is somewhat similar to java, but seems much easier to use and write codes. With Python I found my self not worrying aboout classes, brackets and long process in defining objects. Python lanaguage is much easier for me to learn then java. Well any how, I wrote this simple code, but I keep getting this error message, can some tell what this means and how to correct it. The code I wrote is below the error message.

P.S.... I'm Using python 3.1 ide

erroer message
"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python31/adding.py", line 2, in <module>
integer1 = raw_input( 'Enter First Number: \n' )
NameError: name 'raw_input' is not defined
"

The error means that Python has not know what "raw_input" is. Python 2 had a function called "raw_input", but for Python 3 it was renamed to simply "input". Change "raw_input" to "input" and I believe your program should work.

Hope that helps and welcome to programming!

Yes you have to use input instead of raw_input. One more change is needed.
Take a look at this code-


This post has been edited by shadhin: 6 Jul, 2009 - 01:51 AM

That's not the best way shadhin ... because now you would want to use Error handling since it is likely you'll raise a ValueError. You really should not have "input" within any try loop to help avoid errors in your code.

You really shouldn't cast a data type in python until you understand Error handling.