User Input

[Fábio Santos]

On 30 May 2013 12:58, "Eternaltheft" <eternaltheft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:33:41 PM UTC+8, Eternaltheft wrote:
> > Hi, I'm having trouble oh how prompt the user to enter a file name and
how to set up conditions. For example, if there's no file name input by the
user, a default is returned
>
> Thanks for such a fast reply! and no im not using raw input, im just
using input. does raw_input work on python 3?

On python 2, the function to prompt the user for input and return a string
is raw_input.

On python 3 that function has been renamed to input.

However on python 2 input is something else. It also evaluates the input as
a python expression. That makes it unsafe to use in most circumstances.
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