Actually, I did run python in interactive mode and the input function worked.
From the command line I entered "python" and saw the prompt >>>
From the command line I entered "python" and saw the prompt >>>
>>> xx = input() sdfddsf I entered this >>>> print(xx) then I did... sdfddsf and the result is goodHowever...
x = input ('Enter something now: ') print(x)will not work