question about input() and/or raw_input()

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/01/2014 18:15, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-01-19, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 18/01/2014 18:41, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> On 18/01/2014 18:30, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>> Pardon me for being cynical, but in the entire history of the universe,
>>>> has anybody ever used input()/raw_input() for anything other than a
>>>> homework problem?
>>>
>>> Not me personally.  I guess raw_input must have been used somewhere at
>>> some time for something, or it would have been scrapped in Python 3, not
>>> renamed to input.
>>
>> Actually, to go off at a tangent, I'm just getting into GUIs via
>> wxPython.  I've discovered there are distinct advantages having to
>> write endless lines of code just to get a piece of data.  For example
>> on a Sunday it helps pass the time between the two sessions of the
>> Masters Snooker final being shown on TV.
>
> Fair enough, but what do you do to pass the time _during_ Snooker
> being shown on TV?
>
> I can still remember the point in my first trip to the UK when I
> accidentally stumbled across darts on TV. Given the endless variety
> (and quantity) of pointless crap that people watch here in the US, I
> can't really explain why I was so baffled and amused by darts on TV --
> but I was.
>

Just no comparison, darts and snooker.  This is excellent though 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnBppccI0o

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Mark Lawrence