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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs String Concatenation

Posted by Tejan Grabus
Tejan Grabus
1,491 Points

Error line 1b

name = input(" what's your name? ")

if name == "kim": print (name + "is a lumberjack") else: print (name + "So fucking un-lovable person") ***It doesn't work I'm using Python 2.8

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Python 2.8 doesn't exist as a real Python version. All of our courses are written against Python 3.4, so you should be using that instead.

The problem with your above code, though, is that input() in Python 2.x doesn't work like it does in Python 3.x. You should use raw_input() instead.