This code is directly from a textbook for Cisco Devnet yet presents a syntax error in python 3.8.1 shell. Why? I tried viewing text in notepad++

Question

while True: string = input('Enter some text to print. \nType "done" to quit>') if string == 'done': break print(string) print('Done!')

SyntaxError: invalid syntax image of issue

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Answer 1

I think your problem is that you wrote:

while true:

instead of

while True:

However, if you are using Python 2 you should be aware that input will attempt to evaluate what you type in as Python. Depending on what your aim is, you may want to use raw_input instead. This is not an issue if your are using Python 3.