Learn python the hard way exercise 17 help, mistake in the book?
<p>I'm liking this book so far, but I run into an issue with exercise 17. It won't run:</p>

<pre><code>neil@neil-K52F:~/python$ python ex17.py ex17from.txt ex17to.txt
  File "ex17.py", line 8
    indata input.read()
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
</code></pre>

<p>The book makes me create a variable named <code>input</code>. Is this a legal variable name? </p>
