On 12/22/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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