On 1/18/2014 1:30 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
Pardon me for being cynical, but in the entire history of the universe, has anybody ever used input()/raw_input() for anything other than a homework problem?
Homework problems (and 'toy' programs, such as hangman), whether in a programming class or elsewhere, are one of the intended use cases of Python. How else would you get interactive input without the complexity of a gui?
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