I am trying to do the first problem of name and birthdate. I am having trouble with printing the responses. Is anyone working on this?

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I am trying to do the first problem of name and birthdate.  I am having trouble with printing the responses.  Is anyone working on this?

stephencampbell · Answer

Hey, Beth.

What's the problem you're having?

stephencampbell · Answer

So this is what I did:

I gave a name to the stuff that I wanted to get from the user - for date of birth, I just called it "DoB". I then said:

DoB = raw_input("Please enter your date of birth >..."")

What this does is prints a prompt using the words in quotations, and waits for the user to enter the info and hit return.

It's printed it out using:

print "You entered your date of birth as: ", DoB.

Same idea for last name, amended to suit.

stephencampbell · Answer

oops; just noticed that I closed the raw_input string with two lots of quotation marks; that's just my fat thumbs; sorry! Just open and close with one lot of quotes  :)

e.mccormick · Answer

the joy of minor synax errors.  While a human can take in " or "" with about the same utility, a computer will scream at you over such a minor issue.

=)