A problem I encountered whilst making a program. (Python) If you know what my mistake is, please help! Thanks :)

[CurtainCrab]

Hello! Even though I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm CurtainCrab. So, I was making a quick program to organise tournaments on Python. I had just started, and when I made a few tests to check, I encountered a problem that I couldn't find the solution to on the internet, so I thought I'd ask you.

# Program to organize a tournament 
 
# A few variables
 
players = list()
playercount = (int(input("Amount of players : ")))
name = ""
 
# A loop that will assign a name to each player in the list (players)
 
looper = (playercount)
 
while looper != 0:
    name = str(input("name of a player : "))
    players.append(name)
    looper = looper - 1

 
And so, I tried the code above, and everything seemed to work well until I entered the Line 14 (name) and it gave me the following error message :
 

[background=#262626] [/background]Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/delmasfamily/Desktop/tournament.py", line 14, in <module>
    name = str(input("name : "))
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'john' is not defined

Thanks a lot for your time everybody! Have a good day and I'll see you later. 

Edited by CurtainCrab, 30 October 2017 - 10:56 PM.

[BoliBerrys]

I've learnt really basic of Python, so probs my answer is not correct.. But pretty sure to read input, the code is 

 

name = raw_input("Name of a player" )

[CurtainCrab]

Wow! I considered that but I never thought it would have worked! Thanks! 

As you may have considered above, I'm probably even more of a beginner than you are. :I

[MrR0GUE]

Your question was answered but I thought I would clarify a bit. To return the input as a string in Python 2 you use raw_input() and in python 3 you use input(). There's also an input() function in Python 2 which is equivalent to eval(input()) in Python 3, This will run your input as python code.

[CurtainCrab]

Oh wow! So I was just using the wrong version. Thanks for the clarification. I'll keep note of it if I ever change versions.

Thanks again.