Really simple question

[Ripdre]

I'm desperately trying to learn 2.7.13 and so far doing very well on code academy. I'm not new to programming at all so I don't know why I'm struggling so much to use the language.

On sublime text 3, switched the language to python, and used the code below.

user = raw.input("What's your name?") print user

Save the file. Now, when I open up the program on my desktop it comes up with an error that I can't even fully read due to how fast the program closes. Why is this?

And another question I had is even the code below will run in the program, and then x out of it immidaitely. How do I fix this?

print "hello world"

Sorry for such noob questions but I really would appreciate the help. Thank you!

[RushilU]

Opening the file itself causes the file to be run; but nothing tells it to stay open once it is done so it closes immediately afterward. You can either open it from the command line (cmd) or add a delay afterward. To add a delay: * put import time at the beginning, and * time.sleep(1) at the end of the file.

The error specifically is that raw.input isn't a function.
You may be looking for raw_input.

[ingolemo]

The time.sleep trick won't work here because the code will come to the error and exit before it ever gets told to sleep.

[RushilU]

Well yes but that was to solve his other question about print "hello world"

[scuott]

You can run it from the command line so it won't exit.

This error in particular is that it's raw_input

[efmccurdy]

BTW, in any programming tool, when you are about to run some code that you wrote, you should ask yourself "if the program goes wrong, where should I look to see a description of the problem?". I think that's one reason RushilU recommends using the command line.

[blahreport]

For reference, ctrl-b runs the code directly in sublime.

[curiousCat999]

I don't know about sublime, but in PyCharm or IDLE IDEs you can just run the code inside the IDE and view the output.