Help with raw_input

[ichabod801]

Please use python tags (https://python-forum.io/misc.php?action=help&hid=25). I added them for you this time.

The problem is that you need parens after lower, like so:

how_are = raw_input('How are you? ').lower()

That's how you call a function or method to get the value it produces. The way you have it, how_are ends up being the lower method itself. Note this oddity:

>>> x = 'SPAM'.lower
>>> x()
'spam'

After the first line, x is the method itself, and displays as nothing. We can then call x, by using parentheses, to get the result we were looking for. But do it the first way I showed you. The second way is just silly.