Jeremy Bush zombor_666 at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 4 23:51:51 EST 2002

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"Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> wrote in message
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> Jeremy Bush writes:
> > [...] cant seem to figure out how to get keyboard input...
> > ive read the whole readme that came with it, the tutorial,
> > everything.
>
> raw_input() gets a line of input.
>
> Unlike C++, you ordinarily get a line at a time, and split it
> to get the information you want.
>
> For example, if you expect the user to type in numbers
> separated by commas, you'd do:
>
> line = raw_input('> ')   # see? you can provide a prompt
> fields = line.split(',')
> for s in fields:
>     x = float(s)  # convert string to float
>     print "you entered the number:", x
>
> If you "import sys", then you have sys.stdin, which is a file object.
> File objects have various methods for input.  Viz:
>   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bltin-file-objects.html
>
> Enjoy Python!
>
> ## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/
>
>

Thanks, everyone

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