On 12/22/06, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
+1 from me as well, although as Ron suggested, you probably want to strip off the newline if we are targetting this to new programmers. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
