[Solved] How to input a player name?

Question

In python 2, raw_input will return a string while input will return an evaluated string. Therefore input works fine for the numbers, since eval('2') gives 2 (as an integer). However it does not work for the name, and hence eval("John") throws an error.

I would recomment to use raw_input throughout your code.
For the numbers you may then compare to a string
if nameless_variable_1 == "2":
and for the name it will not throw an error.

Accepted Answer

In python 2, raw_input will return a string while input will return an evaluated string. Therefore input works fine for the numbers, since eval('2') gives 2 (as an integer). However it does not work for the name, and hence eval("John") throws an error.

I would recomment to use raw_input throughout your code.
For the numbers you may then compare to a string
if nameless_variable_1 == "2":
and for the name it will not throw an error.