long your programs runyou'll be able to write fully interactive programs how the input(function works the input(function pauses your program and waits for the user to enter some text once python receives the user' inputit stores it in variable to make it convenient for you to work with for examplethe following program asks the user to enter some textthen displays that message back to the userparrot py message input("tell me somethingand will repeat it back to you"print(messagethe input(function takes one argumentthe promptor instructionsthat we want to display to the user so they know what to do in this examplewhen python runs the first linethe user sees the prompt tell me somethingand will repeat it back to youthe program waits while the user enters their response and continues after the user presses enter the response is stored in the variable messagethen print(messagedisplays the input back to the usertell me somethingand will repeat it back to youhello everyonehello everyonenote sublime text doesn' run programs that prompt the user for input you can use sublime text to write programs that prompt for inputbut you'll need to run these programs from terminal see "running python programs from terminalon page writing clear prompts each time you use the input(functionyou should include cleareasy-tofollow prompt that tells the user exactly what kind of information you're looking for any statement that tells the user what to enter should work for examplegreeter py name input("please enter your name"print("helloname "!"add space at the end of your prompts (after the colon in the preceding exampleto separate the prompt from the user' response and to make it clear to your user where to enter their text for exampleplease enter your nameeric helloericsometimes you'll want to write prompt that' longer than one line for exampleyou might want to tell the user why you're asking for certain input