On 2014-01-19, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 18/01/2014 18:41, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 18/01/2014 18:30, 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? >> >> Not me personally. I guess raw_input must have been used somewhere at >> some time for something, or it would have been scrapped in Python 3, not >> renamed to input. > > Actually, to go off at a tangent, I'm just getting into GUIs via > wxPython. I've discovered there are distinct advantages having to > write endless lines of code just to get a piece of data. For example > on a Sunday it helps pass the time between the two sessions of the > Masters Snooker final being shown on TV.
Fair enough, but what do you do to pass the time _during_ Snooker being shown on TV? I can still remember the point in my first trip to the UK when I accidentally stumbled across darts on TV. Given the endless variety (and quantity) of pointless crap that people watch here in the US, I can't really explain why I was so baffled and amused by darts on TV -- but I was. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want EARS! I want at two ROUND BLACK EARS gmail.com to make me feel warm 'n secure!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list