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Re: question about input() and/or raw_input()

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: question about input() and/or raw_input()
Date 2014-01-19 18:15 +0000
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On 2014-01-19, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough, but what do you do to pass the time _during_ Snooker
being shown on TV?

I can still remember the point in my first trip to the UK when I
accidentally stumbled across darts on TV. Given the endless variety
(and quantity) of pointless crap that people watch here in the US, I
can't really explain why I was so baffled and amused by darts on TV --
but I was.

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question about input() and/or raw_input() Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-18 13:30 -0500
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-18 18:41 +0000
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-18 10:49 -0800
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-18 20:05 +0100
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-18 16:33 -0500
    Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-19 16:14 +0000
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-19 12:12 -0500
        Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-19 17:42 +0000
          Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 04:59 +1100
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-18 21:17 -0500
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 13:46 +1100
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-18 20:15 -0800
    Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 15:21 +1100
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-18 20:43 -0800
        Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 15:59 +1100
          Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 00:26 -0800
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 21:39 +1100
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-19 08:14 -0800
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 03:38 +1100
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-19 09:50 -0800
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 05:41 +1100
            Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-19 11:16 -0800
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-19 06:24 +0000
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-19 18:07 +0000
    Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-19 18:15 +0000
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-19 13:37 -0500
        Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 05:43 +1100
        Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-19 19:11 +0000
        Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-01-19 15:09 -0500
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-19 19:17 +0000
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 12:24 -0700
      Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-19 19:29 +0000
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-01-19 15:12 -0500
  Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-19 13:22 -0700

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