(Very Newbie) Problems defining a variable

[John Machin]

On Dec 13, 4:50 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:42:55 -0800 (PST), feb... at gmail.com declaimed the
> following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > #Py3k, UTF-8
>
> > bank = int(input("How much money is in your account?\n>>"))
> > target = int(input("How much money would you like to earn each year?
> > \n>>"))
>
>         Just for my curiosity -- did Python 3.x (besides turning print into
> a function) also change input() to behave as the old raw_input()?

Yup. There've been some other tectonic plate shift effects, e.g.:

xrange() -> range(); range() -> list(range())
dict.iteritems() -> dict.items(); dict.items() -> list(dict.items())
halfassci() -> repr(); repr() -> ascii()