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[Python-3000] Pre-PEP: Simple input built-in in Python 3000

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 18:17:25 CET 2006 
On 12/22/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Andre Roberge wrote:
>
>  > The various possibilities mentioned in various forums include:
> >
> > ask()
> > ask_user()
> > get_string()
> > input()  # rejected by BDFL
> > prompt()
> > read()
> > user_input()
> > get_response()
>
> why not call it "readline", and define it as
>
>      import sys
>
>      def readline():
>          return sys.stdin.readline()
>
> ?
>
> if you include the definition in the docstring, you get a nice little
> lead-in to a discussion about modules and object access syntax.

+1.  This also makes it clearer that a whole line is read in. So if
you want to, say, read a single character at a time (a frequent c.l.py
question) you'll know you have to do something else.

STeVe
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