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Silesviing
Silesviing

Reputation: 1

Python: Unexpected EOF while parsing

I'm working on a script for making a text-based game, and no-one I ask can find the issue, so I decided to ask here. When it gets to pressing enter, it comes up with an EOF error.

The code is as follows:

import time

print("Welcome to PyGame, a text-based adventure game run entirely via Python version 3.6.8.\n")
start=str(input("Press ENTER to begin."))
if start=="":
    print("Loading...")
    time.sleep(3)
else:
    quit()

The error, specifically, is:

Welcome to PyGame, a text-based adventure game run entirely via Python version 3.6.8.

Press ENTER to begin.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Random\PyGame.py", line 4, in <module>
    start=str(input("Press ENTER to begin."))
  File "<string>", line 0
    
   ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

Upvotes: -1

Views: 6205

Answers (1)

Anthony Inthavong
Anthony Inthavong

Reputation: 364

In Python 2.x input() is not automatically evaluated as a str type. So when Enter is pressed it interprets the input as EOF - End Of File when parsed, as nothing is read.

In Python 3.x the input() function parses an empty line as a str type.

You can try running the game in Python 3.x instead.

If you cannot use Python 3.x, try using a try, except block to catch and ignore this exception

try:
    start=str(input("Press ENTER to begin."))
except Exception as e:
    start = ""

Upvotes: -1

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