Martin Panter added the comment: The way I see it, input() is mainly geared for prompting to stdout, and it is just one aspect that strangely uses stderr:
* Documentation says stdout * Stdout is checked if it is a terminal and not redirected * Gnu Readline is configured for stdout * The fallback for non-terminals uses stdout Arguments for using stderr: * Consistency with Unix shell * Consistency with the Python interactive interpreter prompt Maybe it is more ideal to use stderr (I have no idea). But I think that would be a more drastic change. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1927> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
