Python programming help

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I have decided to learn how to program this week. Currently I am enjoying it.

I have made a extremely basic program using what I learned about inputs and outputs, it is a bit crude.

I saved it as program.py and in the terminal I used the command python program.py. I got a strange error,

Enter your name: C
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "hello_you.py", line 1, in <module>
person = input('Enter your name: ')
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'C' is not defined

What did I do wrong? I do I fix this?

Last edited by Rudin on 01 Dec 2015, 6:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Makes code much more accessible to the eye.
I don't know Python, sorry.

That most certainly is because you are compiling Python 3 code with Python 2.
The right way to compile it is python3 program.py.

If you want to compile it with Python 2, you should do the following:

person = raw_input ('Enter your name: ')
print 'I hate the name', person

This fixed it, thank you.