raw_input(), STRANGE behaviour

[sevenbark]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:23:36 -0800 (PST), Dox33
<Rens.Duijsens at gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

>WHERE IS THE SECOND LINE?
>It is in the file stderr_catch.txt!!!
>
>**** See the problem?
>Please Tell me? Why is the prompt produced by raw_input() printed to
>the error channel? It should be stdout, just as the print statement
>does.

Isn't this the norm in Unix shells also?  In bash the "read" command
prints the prompt on stderr and the "select" command prints both the
menu and prompt on stderr.

sb