Null number input

[Carl Banks]

Tyson Tate wrote:
> When I use raw_input, I'm able to not enter anything and just hit 
> return, yet with input, I get "unexpected EOF while parsing" if I don't 
> enter anything. 

Stay away from input, unless your intention is to ask the user to
input Python Code.  Sure, it can be nice to let a user enter 1+1 at
the prompt, but it could really suck when a user enters
__import__("os").system("rm -rf /").

Stick to something like this:

line = raw_input()
if line == '\n':
    age = None
else:
    age = int(line)



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CARL BANKS