OK, Ladies and Gents! Either I am missing something simple OR ps0 is providing false results? Here is what I have (I've tried my name, among others, and I get "(x)not defined"):
name=input
input=name
z=name (Jon not defined...works with numbers!)
print z (invalid syntax): I purposely left out the test command on this part...
output=name
output=z
z=name
print (name): this command provides an input area for data and when enter is pressed, prints it.

any ideas?

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OK, Ladies and Gents!  Either I am missing something simple OR ps0 is providing false results?  Here is what I have (I've tried my name, among others, and I get "(x)not defined"):
name=input
input=name
z=name (Jon not defined...works with numbers!)
print z (invalid syntax): I purposely left out the test command on this part...
output=name
output=z
z=name
print (name): this command provides an input area for data and when enter is pressed, prints it.

any ideas?

anonymous · Answer

also, would like to save the ps problems to disk???

rsmith6559 · Answer

input and output are bad variable names.  All languages reserve some words for themselves, and input and output are usually among them.  The Python v2.x function for prompting a user for input and receiving input is raw_input().  Example:

name = raw_input( "Who are you?" )

Note the use of parentheses.  Functions have the parameters passed to them in parentheses.  This makes what you posted very confusing,  your comments look like function arguments.