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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:18:17 +1100
Subject: Re: Using Python for date calculations
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> This Python script does it for me.
>>>
>>> year = input("Year: ")
>>> age = input("Age: ")
>>> born = year-age
>>> print 'Year of birth:', born
>>
>>One thing to be careful of: The input() function in Python 2 should be
>>avoided. Instead, use int(raw_input("Year: ")) and correspondingly
>>Age. It's much safer and clearer than what you have, which is an alias
>>for eval(raw_input("Year: ")) - very dangerous.
>
> I though input() was OK for integers.

In Py2, input() is basically not OK for anything. On the (extremely!)
rare occasions when you actually want to eval() something the user
types, it's better to be explicit: eval(raw_input()).

ChrisA