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Python

Posted by Stéphane Diez
Stéphane Diez
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In Pycharm I can't add a start = raw_input("Press enter/return to start, or Q to quit ")

In Pycharm I can't add a start = raw_input("Press enter/return to start, or Q to quit ")

It gives me this error; what it means?:

''' Connected to pydev debugger (build 139.1001) Press enter/return to start, or Q to quit Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 4.0.4\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 2222, in <module> globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 4.0.4\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1648, in run pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals) # execute the script File "C:/Users/stephane.diez/PycharmProjects/letterGame/lettergame.py", line 18, in <module> start = input("Press enter/return to start, or Q to quit ") File "<string>", line 0 SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing Process finished with exit code 1'''

It doesn't work with input or raw_input. raw_input takes a string back . I use python 2.7.8