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Juliet Bowater
Juliet Bowater

Reputation: 33

Raw input not working as I expected - am I missing a module?

very basic question I'm afraid! I'm a Python newbie, just getting started. I've tried a few ways of getting the following to work, and now I'm wondering whether there was a module I need to import to get raw_input to work? I'm on Python 2.7.10. I want to print "Jane is awesome" if the user input is Jane, and for all other user inputs, print name + "is not awesome". But it always prints name + "is not awesome", even when I enter Jane.

1)

while True:
    name = raw_input("What is your name?")
    if name == "Jane":
        print name + " is awesome"
        break
    else:
        print name + " is not awesome"

2)

endprogram = 0
while endprogram != 1:
    name = raw_input ("What is your name?")
    while name != "Jane":
        print name + " is not awesome"
        name = raw_input ("What is your name?")
    print "Jane is awesome!"
    endprogram = 1

Upvotes: 3

Views: 116

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1122092

Both pieces of code work just fine. Enter Jane and it'll break out:

>>> while True:
...     name = raw_input("What is your name?")
...     if name == "Jane":
...         print name + " is awesome"
...         break
...     else:
...         print name + " is not awesome"
...
What is your name?Martijn
Martijn is not awesome
What is your name?Jane
Jane is awesome

Add in a repr() function call to help debug any issues you may have, such as additional whitespace or missing capitalisation or special characters other than ASCII:

>>> while True:
...     name = raw_input("What is your name?")
...     print 'You entered:', repr(name)
...     if name == "Jane":
...         print name + " is awesome"
...         break
...     else:
...         print name + " is not awesome"
...
What is your name?Martijn
You entered: 'Martijn'
Martijn is not awesome
What is your name? Jane
You entered: ' Jane'
 Jane is not awesome
What is your name?jané
You entered: 'jan\xc3\xa9'
jané is not awesome
What is your name?Jane
You entered: 'Jane'
Jane is awesome

Note the initial space in my first 'attempt' to enter Jane (the quotes around the value show there is a space there). When entering an é, my terminal sends UTF-8 bytes to Python, showing up as two escaped values, hex C3 and A9.

Upvotes: 3

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