Simple input in python script

Question

Hello everyone, i am learning python, and trying simple programs using python in Adams. My problem is how to ask for input string: Something like: name=input() is giving error such: File "", line 1, in EOFError: EOF when reading a line or macros in adams python should be just script without input? Jozef

Kent West · Accepted Answer

Hi Jozef,

Sorry: I should have addressed your question directly: you are correct: input() should work but it doesn't.

The interpreter shell in Adams/View isn't the "usual" Python shell that you interact with. We have to do some input processing on anything that's typed in, unfortunately. Initially multi-line commands (for, def, while, if) didn't work properly and we had to do some special things to get around that. I'll log a defect report on input() and hope that we can fix it for a future version.

I think that our final goal is to provide the 'standard' Python shell that can be incorporated into another tool, like a debugger. Then everything would just work properly and we wouldn't have limitations on the command line behaviour...

Thanks,

Kent