Question

I'm stuck on problem set zero (you can start laughing). I can get raw_inputs to be stored in variables, to where I can just type in the variable that I have them into IDLE and be returned with the appropriate string. However, the problem I'm having is getting the code to run in a sequence. For instance, if I do
FirstName = raw_input ('Enter Last Name')
LastName = raw_input ('Enter First Name')
It will query me for my last name and stop. I guess it's sequencing that I'm having issues with. Thanks for any potential help.

Answer 1

do you enter your last name?

Answer 2

I noticed that I kinda flubbed up the variables, but no, it doesn't allow me to enter my last name.

Answer 3

By which I mean first name. I'm confusing myself here.

Answer 4

when this is executed
FirstName = raw_input ('Enter Last Name')

you should see
Enter Last Name

do you see it?

Answer 5

Yes. My issue is when I put my (fixed) LastName = raw_input ('Enter Last Name') command with my (also fixed) FirstName = raw_input ('Enter First Name'), it only queries me for my last name.

Answer 6

so click on keyboard something and press enter

Answer 7

Let me copy/paste what's going on in my IDLE screen.

>>> x = raw_input ('Enter Last Name')
y = raw_input ('Enter First Name')

Enter Last Name Test
>>>

Answer 8

X being LastName and Y being FirstName.

Answer 9

My first issue is that it is not querying me for my first name after I enter my last name.

Answer 10

well i have never used IDLE but your code is ok :D

Answer 11

I'm using Idle, saved your code and was prompted for first and last.

Answer 12

do you have to save code to a file.py? or you just type code in console?

Answer 13

assuming the answer you put in for last name was "Test"

Answer 14

I'm typing the code in Notepad and copy/pasting it into IDLE, making sure that I don't miss a bit of code. It may very well be that I need to update Python. I'll be back in about 15 minutes after I update it.

Answer 15

If you're using IDLE, in the Python Shell, go to file,and open a new window. use this to write your code and save it as a .py file
you have to save in order to run the whole program.

Answer 16

copy pasting may be not good

Answer 17

try to enter each line into IDLE or from notepad you can save to file.py and run it

Answer 18

Bit too late now; I've already started uninstalling Python. But I swear... if it's saving it in a .py file that it was... Oh, those minor details. Will try it after updating Python to 3.

Answer 19

don't update to 3!!!

Answer 20

yeah I'm using 2.7.1
, don't go to 3

Answer 21

python 3 is somewhat different

Answer 22

and im pretty sure mistake was copying/pasteing

Answer 23

*won't go to 3
*will instead download python 2 again
Alright.

Answer 24

*sigh* It would be the fact that I'm not saving it in a .py file. Thanks for the help, guys!

Answer 25

its not necessery to save it to file, but you cant copy/paste to IDLE if it asks for more than 1 input

Answer 26

it's always the little things.

Answer 27

try this
print (raw_input("Enter the Last Name: ")+"\n"+raw_input("Enter the First Name: "))

Answer 28

The problem could be you're pasting from notepad which uses the windows \r\n characters for line returns which isn't compatible with *nix based systems. Notepad is notorious for this.

If you're using windows I would suggest Notepad++ which gives you the option of using unix style newline encoding so you won't run into this issue. It also offers line counts and code highlighting for easy reading.