I'm a "she" not a "he". :-) But actually I don't believe I was a member of
this group when I was working with the book "A Byte Of Python" I don't believe
I ever described a problem with raw_input here. That concept seems pretty
clear to me but as you say the OP hasn't described a specific problem. As I
said before, it was the fact that the author was describing features that I was
not seeing in the shell that prompted me to try to figure out the "new window"
feature. As soon as I solved the shell problem I had no further difficulties
understanding the concepts in the book. I just thought I'd share what worked
for me. :-)
The OP has not specified what his problems specifically are, but
"earlylight
publishing" described his problem before, and he was not understanding
why
the >>> prompt was expecting immediate keyboard input when he typed in
raw_input(). So a noob cannot figure out why it is advantageous to have
a
raw_input function that immediately asks for input. He thinks, "why
can't I
put the input in directly?" That is why putting a program into an edit
window is very advantageous.
I believe it is very likely that raw_input() is the culprit of
confusion
here.
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