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Roy Smith wrote:

> Pardon me for being cynical, but in the entire history of the universe,
> has anybody ever used input()/raw_input() for anything other than a
> homework problem?

I use it for pointless throwaway tools, sometimes via the cmd module, 
sometimes directly. 

I like that you can add tab-completion.