[Python-Dev] deprecate input()? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:28:03 -0500

I just responded to a question on c.l.py a user had about feeding empty strings to input(). While he didn't say why he called input(), I suspect he thought the semantics were more like rawinput().

In these days of widespread Internet nastiness, shouldn't input() be deprecated?

Why? I imagine this is only used for interactive input, and then it's the computer's owner who is typing.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)