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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 995

My IDLE script is returning a weird error

So I'm messing around with idle and wrote a silly program:

name = "none"
phone = "none"
while phone == "none":
     phone = str(input("Please enter your phone number formatted as (111)111-111 "))
print("loading...")
while name == "none":
    name = str(input("Please enter your full name formatted as First, Last "))
print("Thank you for entering your information. Is this correct?")
print("Phone: ", phone, "Name: ", name)
yesno = str(input("Please Enter 'yes', or 'no' to confirm this information."))
if yesno == "yes":
    print("Thank you for your time! Your data has been successfully submitted.")
else:
    print("Sorry. Please reload the program and enter your data again")

but when I run it I get the error: Unexpected EOF.

It seems to work when I only use numbers and no punctuation. Why cant I pass punctuation like (), in my code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

rdodev
rdodev

Reputation: 3192

python3 test.py
Please enter your phone number formatted as (111)111-111 555 555 5555
loading...
Please enter your full name formatted as First, Last joe, schmoe
Thank you for entering your information. Is this correct?
Phone:  555 555 5555 Name:  joe, schmoe
Please Enter 'yes', or 'no' to confirm this information.yes
Thank you for your time! Your data has been successfully submitted.

So, it works fine as in in py3.

Upvotes: 0

Ashwini Chaudhary
Ashwini Chaudhary

Reputation: 250881

You're running your code in Python2, where input is equivalent to eval(raw_input()). So, it is going to throw EOF errors for invalid identifiers.

>>> input()
1sdfsdf
  File "<string>", line 1
    1sdfsdf
          ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

So, either run your code in Python3 or use raw_input for Python2.(Note that the str call is redundant if you're going to use Python3.)

Upvotes: 4

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