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I have a very basic program that takes user input and reads it back to the user. the code is:

x = input("hello what is your name: ") print("hello " + x)

This works perfectly when run in idle however when run I run it by clicking on the file to get the command line type interface when I enter input i get the following error message:

 File "C:\Users\ROB\Desktop\test.py", line 1, in (module) x = input("hello what is your name: ") File "(string)", line 0 ^ SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

can someone pleese explain why this happens and suggest a solution to enable me to take user input in the command line.

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You are using Python 2, and are executing this somewhere with stdin closed:

>>> x = input("hello what is your name: ") hello what is your name: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 0 ^ SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

On Python 2, use raw_input() instead, and run this in a terminal or Windows console, or from within IDLE.

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Martijn thank you for a quick answer.your comment about me running python two made me relise that my proggrame was opening with the wrong launcher as i had python 2 updated to python 3 but did not delete python 2 meaning my code was running under python 2 even though i thought it was running under python 3
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from the python docs (http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#input):

input([prompt]):
Equivalent to eval(raw_input(prompt)).
This function does not catch user errors. If the input is not syntactically valid, a SyntaxError will be raised. Other exceptions may be raised if there is an error during evaluation.

Consider using the raw_input() function for general input from users.

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