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I'm using the book "Python In Easy Steps" by Mike Mcrath,and I'm having a issue with the user input project. I keep getting the error "multiple statements found while compiling a single statement".

user = input('Hello, my name is Hal. What is your name?:')

print( ' It is very nice to meet you',user)

I'm using the 3.4.3 version of the IDLE shell to test my code.

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  • How are you running the code? Is it a separate script? Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 7:44

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You need to execute them one by one :

user = input('Hello, my name is Hal. What is your name?:')

it will ask for input and then:

print( ' It is very nice to meet you',user)

or create a Python script (.py) and then from terminal exexute:

python filename.py
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IDLE can only do a single statement at once, i.e. in your case: A single line. So you have to paste in all lines individually and execute them.
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print 'It is very nice to meet you %s' % user

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I did not know IDLE could only do one statement at a time. I ran it from the Terminal a few other times and got the same error, but this time it worked. I guess I needed to mess around with the indentations in Notepad. Thanks for the help guys.
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Try this:

print ('It is very nice to meet you %s' % user)
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