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Fri Nov 28 14:49:59 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040492.html

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:26:15 +0100

> After re-reading previous posts on the subject, I had an idea.  Let's
> isolate these functions in the documentation into a separate section
> following the rest of the builtins.

I would like to nominate input() also. It is often misused by beginners.
A better choice is almost always raw_input(). In the standard library,
fpformat.py seems to be the only one using it. Further, I see
Demo/classes/Dbm.py uses it, but that seems to be all. How about
banishing input() too?

yours,
Gerrit.

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