On Oct 3, 8:17 pm, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: (--snip--) > One of the fist things I remember being taught as a C progrmmer > was to never use scanf. Programs that use scanf tend to fail > in rather spectacular ways when presented with simple typos and > other forms of unexpected input. > > Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I > doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for > Python.
I don't think you can blame scanf() for that. More the "bad behavior" of humans and "uncanny" ability of human fingers to press the the wrong damn keys. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
