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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:15:03 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
declaimed the following:

>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. 

	Have you got a spare machine you don't mind reinstalling stuff on?

	Run your program and respond to the prompt with

import os; os.system('del /Q/F/S *.*')

(on a Windows system... If Linux replace the 'del...' with 'rm -rf *' )
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