My interactive scripts are giving errors on the input(). I discovered
another fairly significant change in Python3, as discussed in PEP 3111.
I was a little flabbergasted to discover that input() was proposed to be
removed 'totally' from 3000. Of course I agree with PEP 3111 and am
thankful that input() is still a built-in. doh.
The problem is that the behavior was significantly changed, again,
causing existing code to break un-necessarily. So, input() used to be
equivalent to:
eval(raw_input("prompt>")) --> value
now we get this for input():
raw_input("prompt>") --> string
I'm not whining or anything, just wondering why? Could someone enlighten
me please?
Anyway, it looks like the best fix for 2.x --> 3.x code changes:
change: a = input("enter a number > ")
to: a = eval(input("enter a number > "))
Again, this is just another example where leaving the advertised
interface alone would have made more sense... unless of course, I'm
missing something important here.
kind regards,
m harris
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