Sorry, Hotmail doesn't have a turn of HTML feature or if it does, I couldn't
find it. I think I'm just going to take your word for it that raw_input is
better because I find the entire concept quite confusing. I tried typing in
your example in IDLE and it didn't do anything, except:>>>>>>And then it told
me that it didn't know what the >>("LOL") was. It really disliked the >> bit.
I understand the concept though, I think. I have been using the raw_input
though. If I change it from var=raw_input()>>("LOL")to
var=raw_input("LOL")then it displays>>>LOL>>>Not sure what that means, but
yeah. Well thanks anyway.Adam> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 01:47:51 +0100> From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; tutor@python.org> Subject: Re:
[Tutor] two input acceptions> > adam urbas escreveu:> > Thanks for the help.
I've made quite some progress since I first posted this email. I have a
question though, what did you mean when you were talking about the raw_input(
)? How can the regular input( ) be used evilly? If you could explain in
depth, I would be very grateful. I have a new question related to my program
area.py., I guess it's the same one as before. When I run the program and
input the rectangle option, it asks me for a radius, unless I input 1, instead
of rectangle. How do I program it to accept both 1 and rectangle?> Date: Sat,
12 May 2007 18:55:20 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC:
tutor@python.org> Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)> > adam urbas escreveu:> >
Hi,I just started python today and I would like a few pointers, if you don't
mind. I tried using a tutorial, but was only able to get the correct results
for the most basic problems. # Area calculation programprint “Welcome to the
Area calculation program”print “––> –––––––––––”print# Print out the menu:print
“Please select a shape:”print “1 Rectangle”print “2 Circle”# Get the user’s
choice:shape = input(“> “)# Calculate the area:if shape == 1: height =
input(“Please enter the height: “) width = input(“Please enter the width: “)
area = height*width print “The area is”, areaelse: radius =
input(“Please enter the radius: “) area = 3.14*(radius**2) print “The
area is”, areaI've been trying to get this to work. I was on a forum on Google
and they said to put:input("press ENTER to continue")at the end. I did, but it
didn't work. It runs the program but just shuts itself off when its done and i
don't even get to select any of the option things that i'm s> upposed to be
able to select. It just turns on then back off and I don't even get to see
anything. Could someone help me out.ThanksAdam> >
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welcome to the world of Python. :D> Second. please give a title when you start
a new thread on a mailing list.> Third, format your posts and code. Since
Python uses indented code, it's > kinda hard to read it when it's all in one
line (Don't worry, I'll paste > it indented in a file attached to this email :D
)> > Now for the code.> > After arranging the code, the first thing I noticed
were this characters “ ”> > I tried running the code, and if gave me a error
there, so I just > replace then with " ", and voilá, the code worked :D . So
the lesson > here is always use either " " or ' ' in the code.> > Oh, a> lso
another thing. Don't use input() to get the user input, because > that command
can run code and it may be evilly used. Always use > raw_input() instead :D .>
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> First of all, what email client are you using?> Because the text is getting
all weird and difficult to read (it's all in > one line, with no paragraphs and
things like that).> > Now, the thing about input() and why it's not a good
policy to use is > that, unlike raw_input(), what type in a input() is executed
by Python > (in raw_input() is stored as a string).> > Example:> > var =
raw_input()> >> list("LOL")> > Now we have a variable called var which
contains the string that says > 'list("LOL")'> You can confirm that by typing:>
print var> >> 'list("LOL")> > There, no harm done. Now let's try the same
thing using the input() command:> > var = input()> >> list("LOL")> > Now let's
type "print var" again as we did before.> > print var> >> ['L', 'O'. 'L']> >
Now what happened? Because you used the input() command, what you type > was
interpreted by Python, instead of being stored in a string and since > the
list() command is used to create a list, Python did just that. He > created a
list. Now, in this example, no harm was done. But image > someone typing the
command os.system("command to delete some file or run > some file"). That would
send a delete command to the terminal, or > install some file (it could even be
a virus).> > Ok, it's a little harder to explain, but the thing you should is
that > usually raw_input() = GOOD, input() = BAD.> > > > > Now, I couldn't
quite understand the second problem.> Please explain a little better.> > PS:
Now I know why I see all posts messed up. It's because you're > sending your
emails as a HTML, and I deactivated that on my email > client. I don't know if
Hotmail (I believe you send you emails from > there) as an option to turn off
HTML. If it was please use it :D> (Besides being nice, you can get more
responses if you do that. Not > everyone has an HTML capable email client.)> >
PS2 (no, not the console): I just noticed you didn't send the email back > to
the mailing list. You should select reply to all (or a similar > option) when
replying to mailing list, so that other people can learn too.> > > > -- >
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