Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; '3.0,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; '(without': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.18; 'input': 0.22; "shouldn't": 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:76': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Newbie question about evaluating raw_input() responses Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:15 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <534d7800-14c1-430b-85fb-dd703c2acc4d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-19-5.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1369349487 news.xs4all.nl 15936 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56759 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45851 On Wed, 22 May 2013 22:31:04 GMT, Alister declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > Please write out 1000 time (without using any form of loop) > > "NEVER use input in python <3.0 it is EVIL"* > Shouldn't that be "Never use input in Python < 3.0, it is EVAL" -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/