[Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function (original) (raw)

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Mon Jan 28 20:55:35 CET 2008

-On [20080128 19:51], Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai at in-nomine.org) wrote:

I cannot find anything explicitly in favour of or against this in POSIX. The stuff quoted below is what I could find. I do not think there's a hard mandate either way, but from my experience of having been a committer for both FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD for a number of years stderr was not preferred for prompting. stderr was always the domain of diagnostics.

Sorry, I made a mental typo here:

but from my experience of having been a committer for both FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD for a number of years stdout was not preferred for prompting. stderr was always the domain of diagnostics.

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