I have string variable test, In Python 2.7 this works fine.
test = raw_input("enter the test")
print test
But in Python 3.3. I use
test = input("enter the test")
print test
with the input string sdas
, and I get an error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ananiev/PycharmProjects/PigLatin/main.py",
line 5, in
test = input("enter the test")
File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'sdas' is not defined
You're running your Python 3 code with a Python 2 interpreter. If you weren't, your print
statement would throw up a SyntaxError
before it ever prompted you for input.
The result is that you're using Python 2's input
, which tries to eval
your input (presumably sdas
), finds that it's invalid Python, and dies.
I'd say the code you need is:
test = input("enter the test")
print(test)
Otherwise it shouldn't run at all, due to a syntax error. The print
function requires brackets in python 3. I cannot reproduce your error, though. Are you sure it's those lines causing that error?
sdas is being read as a variable. To input a string you need " "
I got the same error. In the terminal when I typed "python filename.py", with this command, python2 was tring to run python3 code, because the is written python3. It runs correctly when I type "python3 filename.py" in the terminal. I hope this works for you too.
In operating systems like Ubuntu python comes preinstalled. So the default version is python 2.7 you can confirm the version by typing below command in your terminal
python -V
if you installed it but didn't set default version you will see
python 2.7
in terminal. I will tell you how to set the default python version in Ubuntu.
A simple safe way would be to use an alias. Place this into ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases file:
alias python=python3
After adding the above in the file, run the command below:
source ~/.bash_aliases
or source ~/.bashrc
now check python version again using python -V
if python version 3.x.x one, then the error is in your syntax like using print with parenthesis. change it to
test = input("enter the test")
print(test)