On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:24 AM, baalu aanand<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have used both raw_input() and input() for a same input value.
> But these gives different output.
>
> I have listed below what actually I have done
>
> >>> a = raw_input("===>")
> ===> 023
> >>> a
> '023'
>
> I have given the same value for the input() but it gives 19 as
> result
> >>> a = input("===>")
> ===> 023
> >>> a
> 19
>
> Is there anything hide within this. Please illustrate the difference
> between raw_input() and input()
input() === eval(raw_input())
eval("023") --> int("23", 8) --> 19 [an integer, not a string]
raw_input() /always/ returns a string.
Never use input() in Python 2.x. In Python 3, raw_input() was renamed
to input() because it's a better name and the old input() was hardly
ever used (correctly).
Cheers,
Chris
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