On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > 2) I didn't claim that sys.stdin.readline() was as simple as using > input. I didn't claim it was preferable. I merely presented it as > a refutation to the argument that if you don't use input/raw_input > then you have to use a GUI toolkit.
I'd draw a subtle distinction here, btw. With sys.stdin.readline(), you're asking to read a line from standard input, but with (raw_)input(), you're asking to read one line from the console. If it's been redirected, that's going to be equivalent (modulo newline handling), but if not, it would make sense for (raw_)input() to call on GNU Readline, where sys.stdin.readline() shouldn't. Calling a method on a file-like object representing stdin feels lower level than "ask the user for input with this prompt" (which might well do more than that, too - eg it might flush sys.stdout). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list