More random python observations from a perl programmer

[Hrvoje Niksic]

quango at watervalley.net (Chris Lawrence) writes:

> I always use raw_input(), which always returns a string, and do
> sanity testing on that.  input() is inherently dangerous (IMHO it
> shouldn't even be available so easiliy).

Not to mention that it resembles BASIC.  In fact, when I introduce my
friends to Python, I don't mention input at all -- I consider it kind
of embarrassing.

I don't see the purpose of raw_input() and input() when
sys.stdin.readline() and eval(sys.stdin.readline()) are available.