[Edu-sig] [python-advocacy] education as Python killer app

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Thu, 31 May 2007 20:29:08 CDT, "Michael Tobis" writes:
>As I understand it, raw_input will be renamed input in 3.0, and the
>function currently implemented as input would go away, requiring you
>to invoke eval(input("prompt")) if you need its functionality. Thus,
>the PEP text you quote doesn't correspond to my understanding, based
>on what I took from GvR's keynote at PyCon.
>
>However, this is off topic for these lists and would be better taken
>up on c.l.p. where someone in the know will be sure to clarify the
>matter.
>
>mt

Actually, this is on-topic for edu-sig.  And the person who knows
the most about it you can find there -- André Roberge.  He had
the same objections, and implemented this approved PEP 
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3111/  with Guido von Rossum
at PyCon this year.

Laura