Python IF/ELIF/ELSE statements producing error

Question

I have been working on a project, and to test If/Elif/Else projects, I wrote a little bit of code to get an idea how it worked. I wrote:

opclo = input('>');
if(opclo == 'CLOSED'):
    print "Good night.";
elif(opclo == 'WACKED'):
    print "wacked";
else:
    print "Good morning.";

It gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "python", line 2, in <module>
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'CLOSED' is not defined

I am wondering why it does this. I have tried mutliple things, such as removing brackets, adding a opclo = opclo2 (making line 1's opclo into opclo2) and adding a array with "CLOSED" and "WACKED" in it. Any ideas?

Thanks.

If you completely deleted the `if`/`elif`. you'd still have this exact error. — Charles Duffy, Sep 11 '16 at 17:20

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '16 at 17:15

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You are using Python2 so you need to use raw_input instead of input.

opclo = raw_input('>')
if opclo == 'CLOSED':
    print "Good night."
elif opclo == 'WACKED':
    print "wacked"
else:
    print "Good morning."

answered Sep 11 '16 at 17:15

Daniel

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Thanks for the answer! Really appreciated. – Questioning Questioner Sep 11 '16 at 17:39

Igor Komar · Answer 2 · 2016-09-11T17:44:04.393

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tl;dr

input('>') - for python expressions

raw_input - for strings.

You should use raw_input

edited Sep 11 '16 at 17:44

answered Sep 11 '16 at 17:16

Igor Komar

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`input` is not for digits, but for python expressions. – Daniel Sep 11 '16 at 17:17

Python IF/ELIF/ELSE statements producing error

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