Re: User Input

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Date	Thu, 30 May 2013 13:10:53 +0100
Subject	Re: User Input
From	Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
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On 30 May 2013 12:58, "Eternaltheft" <eternaltheft@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:33:41 PM UTC+8, Eternaltheft wrote:
> > Hi, I'm having trouble oh how prompt the user to enter a file name and
how to set up conditions. For example, if there's no file name input by the
user, a default is returned
>
> Thanks for such a fast reply! and no im not using raw input, im just
using input. does raw_input work on python 3?

On python 2, the function to prompt the user for input and return a string
is raw_input.

On python 3 that function has been renamed to input.

However on python 2 input is something else. It also evaluates the input as
a python expression. That makes it unsafe to use in most circumstances.

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User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 04:33 -0700
  Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:45 +0100
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 04:48 -0700
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:06 +1000
    Re: User Input MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-30 13:08 +0100
    Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 13:10 +0100
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 05:19 -0700
    Re: User Input Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 13:27 +0100
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:28 +1000
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 05:37 -0700
    Re: User Input Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-30 08:58 -0400
    Re: User Input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 22:59 +1000
  Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 06:10 -0700
    Re: User Input Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-30 09:37 -0400
      Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:03 -0700
        Re: User Input Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-30 15:30 +0100
          Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:49 -0700
      Re: User Input Eternaltheft <eternaltheft@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 07:47 -0700
        Re: User Input Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 16:09 +0100

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