On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > now we get this for input(): > > raw_input("prompt>") --> string
I would have to say that the 2.x behaviour of input() is a mistake that's being corrected in 3.x. With a simple name like input(), it should do something simple and straightforward - not eval() the expression. > to: a = eval(input("enter a number > ")) Uhhhh.... NO. NO NO NO. What if someone enters "os.exit()" as their number? You shouldn't eval() unchecked user input! Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list