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Subject: Re: question about input() and/or raw_input()
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:07:44 +0000
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On 18/01/2014 18:41, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 18/01/2014 18:30, 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?
>>
>
> Not me personally.  I guess raw_input must have been used somewhere at
> some time for something, or it would have been scrapped in Python 3, not
> renamed to input.
>

Actually, to go off at a tangent, I'm just getting into GUIs via 
wxPython.  I've discovered there are distinct advantages having to write 
endless lines of code just to get a piece of data.  For example on a 
Sunday it helps pass the time between the two sessions of the Masters 
Snooker final being shown on TV.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence