Issue 25692: input function outputs prompt to stderr (original) (raw)

The built-in function 'input' appears to be sending the prompt to stderr instead of stdout, as the docs state it should.

$ python3.5 -c "print('stdout'); import sys; print('stderr', file=sys.stderr); input('foo')" 2> errors.txt stdout hello $ cat errors.txt stderr foo

I've replicated this behavior in both Python 3.4 on Linux and Python 3.5 and 2.7 on OS X. Here's the 2.7 test/output:

$ python2.7 -c "from future import print_function; print('stdout'); import sys; print('stderr', file=sys.stderr); raw_input('foo')" 2> errors.txt stdout hello $ cat errors.txt stderr foo

I believe the stated behavior (outputting the prompt to stdout) is the proper behavior.

I figure I must be doing something wrong here, because it seems bizarre to me that this discrepancy hasn't been discovered before.