On 06/18/2012 12:55 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 6/18/2012 11:32 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> jmfauth writes: >> >>> Thinks are very clear to me. I wrote enough interactive >>> interpreters with all available toolkits for Windows >>>>> r = input() >> u'a >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> SyntaxError: u'a >> >> Er, no, not really :-) >> > You're using 2.x; this thread concerns 3.3, which, as has been repeated > several times, does not evaluate strings passed via input() like 2.x. > That code does not raise a SyntaxError in 3.x. >
And you're missing the context. jmfauth thinks we should re-introduce the input/raw-input distinction so he could parse literal strings. So Jussi demonstrated that the 2.x input did NOT satisfy fmfauth's dreams. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
