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user7120460
user7120460

Reputation:

Multiple inputs and "SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing"

I am using python 3. My goal is to receive some inputs and build a dictionary to represent a phone book. The first line of input is the number of people the program is going to receive the data about.

My input is this file d8_input.txt:

3
sam 99912222
tom 11122222
harry 12299933

My code to read the data above is:

#store the number of items on dic
num = int(input())

#create an empty dictionary
dic_phone_book = {}

#store the names and telephone in dic
for j in range(0, num):
    name_and_telephone = str(input())
    print (name_and_telephone)

I still have to split the string in order to store the name and the telephone number in separate variables. However, I am having a big problem to read the file.

When I run python3 d8.py < d8_input.txt, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d8.py", line 10, in <module>
    name = str(input())
  File "<string>", line 1
    sam 99912222
               ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

If I just run python3 d8.py and manually input the data, I still get the same error. How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1567

Answers (2)

Beno&#238;t
Beno&#238;t

Reputation: 3543

You want to use sys.stdin.readline instead because input is meant for interactive input. See sys.stdin.readline() and input(): which one is faster when reading lines of input, and why?

Upvotes: 3

user7120460
user7120460

Reputation:

It was just a problem with the version of python. The default in my terminal is python 2. I thought I was running Python 3 but I was not. I tried to delete this question, however, since it is an open bounty, I can't delete it. So, I am answering it.

Upvotes: 2

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