Radenski, Atanas wrote: > Me too :-) I would like to see both input and raw_input preserved. > Replacing these with more complicated (from pedagogical perspective) > methods would probably give an additional reason for educators to look > at alternative languages, such as Ruby.
I realize this is the education SIG list, but it's important to remember that Python is not just for educators and students (though I believe it makes a great language for those demographics). I used Python extensively for scripting system administration tasks and interactive scripts that our users would use. While hiding the input functions inside the sys module wouldn't make life substantively harder for the sysadmins, it might prove just enough hurdle to look at other options. I will, for the sake of sanity and on-topic-ness, refrain from recanting some of the great Python/Perl battles that the SCCS [1] has suffered over the years. - d [1] Swarthmore College Computer Society, the group at which I was an admin for 3 years. http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/ _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig