[mdlug] Python Code Question

[JeremyBekka C]

Thanks for your help! It makes sense now when I realise that the
interpreter cannot run more that one command at a time. When I indent the
print 'Bye' command under the previous command it works fine. So, the only
way to be able to run that code in interactive mode is to write it as a
script and then import it into the interpreter?

Thanks!

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Gregory Czerniak <gregczrk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Two things:
> 1) You can python3-ize the above code by treating print as a function (wrap
> the thing to be printed in parentheses) and using input() rather than
> raw_input().
> 2) Interactive mode only executes one command at a time.  The "while"
> statement (and all its indented statements) are one command, and print
> 'Bye' is another.  The interactive Python interpreter is getting confused
> by that final print statement since it's not on the same indent level as
> the other statements in the "while" and it's assuming everything is still
> related to the "while."
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM, JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, I just figured out what was wrong when I ran the code in Idle. I
> was
> > using the interpreter for Python3 not 2.7. When I used the right
> > interpreter it worked fine. However, I can not figure out what is wong in
> > the terminal.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:56 PM, JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am trying to learn Python by working through the book "Learning
> Python
> > > (3th Edition) - Ascher, Lutz (O'Reilly, 2008)". I have a question
> > regarding
> > > one of the examples in the book which is using python 2.2. The code is
> > the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > while True:
> > >     reply = raw_input('Enter text:')
> > >     if reply == 'stop' : break
> > >     print int(reply) ** 2
> > > print 'Bye
> > >
> > > When I run this in the Idle interpreter it gives me an error on line 4
> > > with the int() built-in and says "SyntaxError: invalid syntax".
> > >
> > > If I run this in the terminal I get the following:
> > >
> > > >>> while True:
> > > ...       reply = raw_input('Enter text:')
> > > ...       if reply == 'stop' : break
> > > ...       print int(reply) ** 2
> > > ...    print 'Bye'
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 5
> > >     print 'Bye'
> > >         ^
> > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> > >
> > > Any idea what is wrong here? Iooked up the integer built-in on the
> python
> > > website and it did not give me any ideas what is wrong.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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