Python string input gives error unless with quotes

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I thought the input method will take any numeric or string input and print it out. But for string it does not work unless string is in quoted. Why?

Does this answer your question? [input() error - NameError: name '...' is not defined](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21122540/input-error-nameerror-name-is-not-defined) — user202729, Dec 30 '21 at 14:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '20 at 02:30

In Python 2.7, input() evaluates the input as code, so strings need to be quoted. Python 2.7 has a method called raw_input() that treats all input as strings (no quotes needed).

In Python 3.x, the Python 2.7 raw_input() method was renamed input() and the Python 2.7 input() functionality was replaced by eval(input())

So you can use raw_input() in Python 2.7 or switch to Python 3.x

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '20 at 02:30

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Make sure that you are running the code on Python 3 and not Python 2. On python 2 you are needed to quote your input with ""

it seems like there are multiple solution to this though:

input() error - NameError: name '...' is not defined

answered Feb 18 '20 at 02:30

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