Accepting text input

[Collin]

Kam-Hung Soh wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:02:36 +1000, Collin <collinyeung at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>> En Mon, 12 May 2008 01:54:28 -0300, Collin <collinyeung at shaw.ca> 
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Collin wrote:
>>>>> I'm pretty new to Python, but this has really bugged me. I can't 
>>>>> find a
>>>>> way around it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that, when I use raw_input("sajfasjdf") whatever, or
>>>>> input("dsjfadsjfa"), you can only have numerical values as answers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, wow. I feel so stupid. Please disregard this message. <_<
>>>  No need to apologize...
>>>
>>>> I read the error message just now a bit more carefully, and I tried
>>>> something. I tried defining "yes" as some random numerical value. Then
>>>> when I did:
>>>> (example code)
>>>>
>>>> yes = 123123983 #some number
>>>> test = input("Test test test ")
>>>> if test == yes:
>>>>     print "It worked."
>>>> else:
>>>>     print "failed"
>>>>
>>>> (example code off)
>>>  The usual way for Python<3.0 is:
>>>  answer = raw_input("Test test test ").lower()
>>> if answer == "yes":
>>>      ...
>>>  The input() function evaluates user input as an expression: if he 
>>> types 2+5 the input() function returns the integer 7. I would never 
>>> use input() in a program - it's way too unsafe; use always raw_input 
>>> instead.
>>>
>>
>> If I use it like that, do I have to import anything to have the 
>> .lower() work? And if I do, what does the .lower() signify?
>> -- 
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
> 
> You don't need to import any module to use ".lower()"; it is a method of 
> a string.  raw_input() returns a string, so you can use methods of a 
> string.
> 
> Try the following statement to see what happens:
> "ABCDE".lower()
> 

So the .lower() string method is just to convert the string to lowercase 
letters so that you don't have to type a bunch of if - then statements 
in both cases, I'm assuming?