Line of Python code not working in my game

Question

So this line of code in my Python game is not working:

direction=raw_input("What would you like to do?\n")

It's supposed to get the player to type in a command either: North, South, East, West, Look, Search, Commands or Inventory. It's coming up with this:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/khalilismail/Desktop/COMPUTING/Text-based Games/DragonQuest.py", line 173, in direction=raw_input("What would you like to do?\n") EOFError: EOF when reading a line

Please help

Here is the stack of code surrounding this: while game==on:

while place==town:

    direction=raw_input("What would you like to do?\n")

    if direction=="west":
        if "iron ore" and "wood" and "3 Gold Pieces" in items:
            print "The blacksmith greets you, and you tell him that you have the items and money he requires, you also give him the saw to make up for some of the difference, he then forges you a battleaxe and wishes you luck on the rest of your quest"
            items.remove ("saw")
            items.remove ("3 Gold Pieces")
            items.remove ("iron ore")
            items.remove ("wood")
            items.append ("battleaxe")

Can you edit your question with the lines of code around this line? — rlms, Apr 25 '15 at 15:12
what do you enter when the error happens? Also where are you running it? — Padraic Cunningham, Apr 25 '15 at 15:20
are you running this using an online interpreter by any chance? — enigma, Apr 25 '15 at 15:23
Are you using Sublime Text? Some people has had some trouble with this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17758782/python-eoferror-eof-when-reading-a-line — Ricardo Burillo, Apr 25 '15 at 15:35
Aside: your `if "iron ore" and "wood"` etc. line doesn't do what you think it does. — DSM, Apr 25 '15 at 15:43
Addition to aside: you should do `all(i in items for i in ("iron ore", "wood", "3 Gold Pieces"))` instead. — rlms, Apr 25 '15 at 16:05
So try running your program from the command line instead of within Atom. If `raw_input()` now works as expected, then you know it's an issue with input in Atom similar to the one @RicardoBurillo mentioned with Sublime Text. — Michael Geary, Apr 25 '15 at 18:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

As suggested in the comments, some editors don't support input (including Atom). Here are some options you can overcome this:

Set the direction variable by hard-coding it while debugging (don't forget to remove it after debugging)
Change your editor (keep in mind that Sublime also has the same problem, but this has a workaround - Sublime Text 2 console input; Notepad++ however doesn't have this problem when running code through command line).

You could also try and remove the newline '\n' from the raw_input string to test if it works.

Line of Python code not working in my game

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