Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> alf enlightened us with:
>
>>I have a command line program which also does some interaction with the
>>user using stdin and stdout.
>>
>>My requirement is to print prompt so the user can answer in the same
>>line. Unfortunately:
>>
>> print 'enter command:',
>>
>>
>>does not really work as the comma is carried over to the following lines
>>and the indentation gets messed up.
>>
>>
>>I can use sys.stdout.write('enter command:') instead but kind of do not
>>like sys.stdout.write mixed up with print's statements used to display
>>other informations.
>>
>>
>>Is there a pythonic solution for the problem?
>
>
> Yeah, write a function:
>
> def prompt(label):
> '''Prompts the user, returning the typed text'''
>
> sys.stdout.write(label)
> return sys.stdin.readline()
>
Or use raw_input(), which was designed for such situations:
>>> mystr = raw_input("Who is this? ")
Who is this? Steve
regards
Steve
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