[Tutor] dangers of input() (original) (raw)

Danny Yoo dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Tue Jul 20 20:05:54 CEST 2004


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Dick Moores wrote:

I was thinking of using input() instead of rawinput in my Frac.py (posted yesterday). This would enable the user to enter things such as "4**-3". Am I correct in assuming that this would be impossible to do without using input()? If so, I may go ahead with input()--I'm the only user, after all.

Hi Dick,

Yup, that's right:

value = input("enter an expression: ") enter an expression: 23 + 42 + 3**1 value 27

value = rawinput("enter an expression: ") enter an expression: 23 + 42 + 31 value '23 + 42 + 31' ###

Hope this helps!



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