Division oddity

[Peter Hansen]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> > > Well, the documentation for "input()" says "Equivalent to
> > > eval(raw_input(/prompt/))". Perhaps it should say "/Usually/
> > > equivalent...."
> >
> > I remember reading that too, and just assumed that at this point
> > it was in fact *implemented* that way, as a simple alias.  Maybe
> > it should be...
> 
> Python has no support for macros or aliases, and it would be silly
> to add some special kludge for input().  The user needs to be able
> to redefine the function and so forth too.

Sure it does:

def input(*args):
    return eval(raw_input(*args))

That's what I mean by "alias", anyway.... same as the implementation
which I understand is used for string.methodx(s) nowadays, which is
apparently just passed on to s.methodx().

-Peter