{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36","id":138249671,"number":36,"title":"simple-text-scroll-(rotated).py","user":{"login":"mamvcivm","id":11886757,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11886757?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm","html_url":"https://github.com/mamvcivm","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mamvcivm/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2016-03-03T17:48:07Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T22:17:08Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi there, newbie here, so apologies upfront!\r\nI can successfully run most of the scroll-phat examples, but not the text scroll ones. When I run them, i get no output on the scroll-phat - are they waiting for me to enter some text? \r\n\r\nIf so, if I enter (eg) Hello World, I get the following error:-\r\nusage: python simple-text-scroll-rotated.py \"message\"\r\npress CTRL-C to exit\r\n\r\n>>> hello world\r\nSyntaxError: invalid syntax\r\n>>> hello\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"<pyshell#2>\", line 1, in <module>\r\n    hello\r\nNameError: name 'hello' is not defined\r\n>>>\r\nKeyboardInterrupt\r\n\r\nIf I then enter \"Hello World\" ie with quotation marks I get:-\r\n\r\n>>> ================================ RESTART ================================\r\n>>>\r\n\r\nusage: python simple-text-scroll-rotated.py \"message\"\r\npress CTRL-C to exit\r\n\r\n>>> \"hello world\"\r\n'hello world'\r\n>>>\r\n\r\nBut still no output on the Scroll-Phat itself...\r\n\r\nCan anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?\r\n\r\nThanks"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/comments/192495015","html_url":"https://github.com/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36#issuecomment-192495015","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pimoroni/scroll-phat/issues/36","id":192495015,"user":{"login":"AndiCui","id":12994663,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12994663?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui","html_url":"https://github.com/AndiCui","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AndiCui/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-04T22:17:08Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T22:17:08Z","body":"@alexellis I do remember that I ran it more than once secesfully without sudo. It that only in Jessie? "}}