Intro to Programming Lesson 2

REPL

$ python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Apr  8 2015, 14:55:10)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from speech import say
>>> say('this is a test')
>>> say('this is a test')
>>> say('Hello Ellisheva!')
>>> say('hello daddy')
>>> "na"*3
'nanana'
>>> "na"*10 + " batman"
'nananananananananana batman'
>>> say("na"*10 + " batman")
>>> say("happy happy joy joy"*4)
>>> say("My name is Elisheva")
>>> say("My name is Ellie")
>>> say("hello mommy"")
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    say("hello mommy"")
                      ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>>> say("hello mommy")
>>> say("hello mommy".replace('mommy', 'daddy'))
>>> "hello " + "daddy"
'hello daddy'
>>> say("hello " + "daddy")
>>> say('no bite')
>>> say('no bite!')
>>> say('no BITE!')
>>> for x in range(3):
...     say('hip hip')
... say('horray')
  File "<stdin>", line 3
    say('horray')
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> for x in range(3):
...     say('hip hip')
...
>>> say('horray')
>>> for x in range(4):
...     say('my name is')
...
>>> say('sli sli slim shady')
>>> while text = raw_input('say: '):
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    while text = raw_input('say: '):
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> while text:
...     text = raw_input('say: ')
...     say(text)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'text' is not defined
>>> text = None
>>> while text:
...     text = raw_input('say: ')
...     say(text)
...
>>> while True:
...     text = raw_input('say: ')
...     say(text)
...
say: test
say: this is a test
say: hello ellie
say: come in daddy

speech.py

import subprocess
import shlex

def say(text):
    subprocess.call(shlex.split('say %s' % text))