Baffled by readline module

[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-03-09, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:

> [...]
>>It finally dawned on me after seeing an example I found elsewhere that
>>you don't call some module method to fetch the next user-entered line.
>>
>>You call the input() built-in.
>
> Ah. That's not overtly stated? [...reads...] Ah, there it is in the last 
> sentence of the opening paragraph. Not quite as in-your-face as I'd have 
> liked it.

What threw me off the track for a while was that the sentence to which
you refer says it affects the "prompts offered by input()". In my head,
that means it changes the string that's printed on stdout before stuff
is read from stdin. That's different that affecting the handling of
user input read by input().

It doesn't actually change anything about the prompts provided by
input(). It changes the handling of the user input by input().

I guess I read it too literally. I must spend too much time with
computers.

> That paragraph could do with being a bullet list of use cases.