Question

#!usr/bin/python

listofnames = []

names = input("Pls enter how many of names:")
x = 1

for x in range(0, names):
    inname = input("Enter the name " + str(x))
    listofnames.append(inname)


print listofnames

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error

inname = input("Enter the name " + str(x))

File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘Jhon’ is not defined

Answer 1

input gets text from the user which is then interpreted as Python code (hence it’s trying to evaluate the thing you entered, Jhon). You need raw_input for both of them and you’ll need to convert the number entered (since it’s a string) to an integer for your range.

#!usr/bin/python

listofnames = []
names = 0
try:
    names = int(raw_input("Pls enter how many of names:"))
except:
    print "Problem with input"

for x in range(0, names):
    inname = raw_input("Enter the name %d: "%(x))
    listofnames.append(inname)

print listofnames