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Dara Roberts
Courses Plus Student 7,770 PointsName error persisting after moving OrderedDict to the bottom of file
After moving the OrderedDict to the bottom of the file
menu = OrderedDict([
('a', add_entry),
('v', view_entry),
])
if __name__ == '__main__':
initialize()
menu_loop()
My command line returns this error:
Action: a
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "diary.py", line 56, in <module>
menu_loop()
File "diary.py", line 31, in menu_loop
choice = input('Action: ').lower().strip()
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'a' is not defined
3 Answers
Miguel Boekhold
7,217 PointsAh, apparently this is an issue pre Python 3.x, Python2's input read and evaluates what you put into it, in this case looking to return a variable we put into the input() , in python2 you would need to do raw_input(), python3 does not have this behavior
Miguel Boekhold
7,217 PointsI have the same issue, is there anyone who can explain why?
Dara Roberts
Courses Plus Student 7,770 PointsYeah I completely forgot to respond to my own question by mentioning the switch to python 3 that helped fix it. Sorry!