On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: >> This Python script does it for me. >> >> year = input("Year: ") >> age = input("Age: ") >> born = year-age >> print 'Year of birth:', born > >One thing to be careful of: The input() function in Python 2 should be >avoided. Instead, use int(raw_input("Year: ")) and correspondingly >Age. It's much safer and clearer than what you have, which is an alias >for eval(raw_input("Year: ")) - very dangerous. I though input() was OK for integers. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list