When giving user input I don't want to have to put quotations is this possible?

Question

I'm trying to get user input on something but it's not very user friendly to have to put quotations each time you type an answer.

    loop = True
    while loop:

        user_input = input("say hello \n")
        if user_input == "hello":
        print("True")

I want to be able to just type hello and not have to add the quotations (ex. "hello").

you won't have to. run the program and it should work without the quote. — Vikash Singh, Aug 02 '17 at 14:10
It is literally required by the language to have quotes to distinguish objects from string literals — Cory Kramer, Aug 02 '17 at 14:11
so when I'm getting user input I have to type "hello" with quotes the but I want to be able to just type hello. — Asori12, Aug 02 '17 at 14:11
Why are people down voting this question? please let the asker know. — Vikash Singh, Aug 02 '17 at 14:12
@VikashSingh Because we had to figure out that op is using `input` on python2, when the question is not tagged as such, and that they are `eval`ing input by default. — cs95, Aug 02 '17 at 14:14
@VikashSingh The fact that people in the comments are interpreting the question 3 different ways would suggest that the question is quite obviously unclear. — Aran-Fey, Aug 02 '17 at 14:14
@Rawing the user is clearly a newbie. Tell him/her in comments what's wrong with the question and how to improve it. — Vikash Singh, Aug 02 '17 at 14:16
that would definitely help. also could have been clearer about where you were talking about the quotes (i.e. in your code or in the input) — Jason Stein, Aug 02 '17 at 14:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '17 at 14:13

In the Python 3.6 interactive prompt:

>>> user_input = input("say hello \n")
say hello 
hello
>>> user_input
'hello'

you need to quote the string when you check equality, but shouldn't need to for the input. as others have said, in python 2.x, use raw_input. Python 2.7:

>>> user_input = raw_input("say hello \n")
say hello 
hello
>>> user_input
'hello'

Vikash Singh · Answer 2 · 2017-08-02T14:17:56.513

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There is a slight difference in between input and raw_input: What's the difference between raw_input() and input() in python3.x?

python 2.7:

loop = True
hello_input = "hello"
while loop:
    user_input = raw_input("say hello \n")
    if user_input == hello_input:
        print("True")

python 3:

loop = True
hello_input = "hello"
while loop:
    user_input = input("say hello \n")
    if user_input == hello_input:
        print("True")

When you run these programs you wont have to put input in terminal with quotes:

eg:

say hello
hello
True

edited Aug 02 '17 at 14:17

answered Aug 02 '17 at 14:15

Vikash Singh

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If you think a question is a duplicate then you should flag it as such, as written, there is no way to know if this really is the issue. – Sayse Aug 02 '17 at 14:15
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@Sayse The question is not a duplicate because the Asker does not know that what he/she is looking for is a different approach for the same problem. ie: use `raw_input` instead of `input`. – Vikash Singh Aug 02 '17 at 14:19

When giving user input I don't want to have to put quotations is this possible?

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