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

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Tue Jan 29 09:26:51 CET 2008

-On [20080129 00:13], Greg Ewing (greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:

What document did this come from? This sounds more like it's talking about what should be described in various sections of a man page, not what should be written to the various streams by a program.

It did, it's from the C. Rationale for Shell and Utilities (XCU).

Otherwise,

> a message indicating that the utility had insufficient memory in which to operate would not be described. sounds like an out-of-memory message shouldn't be written to stderr, which I'm fairly sure is not the case!

It's only talking about what will be described in the various sections of the utilities' documentation, yes. But it was the closest I could find to anything explicitly mentioning stdin, stdout, or stderr and their function.

I could find nothing with regard to prompting or other such descriptions.

So, don't count on POSIX to mandate anything on this (as far as I can tell).

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