[Tutor] dealing with user input whose value I don't know

[Alan Gauld]

"David" <ldl08 at gmx.net> wrote

> Does that mean input() is obsolete (after all, Zelle's book is not 
> the freshest on the shelf)? Or do they have different uses?

They have different uses and input is very convenient at the >>> 
prompt
or when experimenting but in most cases is the wrong choice for
'production'; code because of its vulnerability to exploitation by
crackers and other malicious (or unintentionally malign) users.

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Alan Gauld
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