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If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
 2.7.2.3
2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer: component
page):   a
    a. Have you selected the "Recommended" component selection?
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list? What
plugins?
3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"? b
a. Yes
b. No
4. If the answer to 3. is yes, what installation directories have you
chosen?
5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?   a
a. default path
b. custom path, which one?
6. Have you installed Python(x,y):   b
    a. For "Current user only"
    b. For "All users"
7. What is your operating system?   c
a. Windows XP
b. Windows Vista
c. Windows 7
8. Is the operating system 64 bit?  a
a. Yes
b. No
9. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :  b
a. a regular user
b. an administrator of the machine
10. If you are using Windows Vista/7, have you installed Python(x,y): b
a. simply by double-clicking on the installer
    b. by right-clicking on the installer and selecting "Run as an
administrator"
11. Regarding installed softwares on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y) (multiple answers are possible): b
a. you didn't do anything, you installed Python(x,y) directly on your
machine without precaution
b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the
official .msi)
c. you cleaned the Windows registry by removing all Python-related keys
d. you cleaned the environment variables by removing all deprecated
entries

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Please provide any additional information below.

Whenever I tries to get a string as an input, it creates an error as follows:

(original script:
 s = input("Please type some characters and press enter:")
)

  File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 326, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:\Users\piaa\Desktop\temp.py", line 1, in <module>
    s = input("Please type some characters and press enter:")
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\app.py", line 375, in Win32Input
    return eval(raw_input(prompt))
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'sdifa' is not defined

Original issue reported on code.google.com by HanLabU...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2012 at 10:29

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please check your input method see issue 453.

If the issue repeatable under ipython interactive entry?

Original comment by grizzly.nyo on 16 Jun 2012 at 11:04

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where's issue 453?

Yes, it is repeatable under ipython interactive entry.

Original comment by HanLabU...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:07