On 12/23/06, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/23/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/23/06, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was reading the thread and wanted to make a comment about the "input > > > from a GUI". It should be noted that whatever the names of these > > > functions, or their allowed parameters, etc., the idea of them being > > > more than console IO should be allowed for. The builtins should be > > > easily redefinable when you run a script (at least optionally, in the > > > future) to use a simply prompt GUI and dialogs, etc. Even if the > > > script was written without such in mind. > > > > > > Is this too much to consider? > > > > It is already easy enough to replace any built-in in a specific > > environment. I don't think we need to make this part of the spec for > > input(). For example, it should be trivial to write a little driver > > program that takes a script file and further arguments (for the > > script) and runs the script in an environment where stdout/stderr go > > to a Tkinter text window (or Gtk, or whatever) and input() pops up > > some kind of dialog, for example. IDLE does something like this; its > > input() reads from the console window. > > I was meaning to say that the functions be defined such, just that the > idea is kept in mind throughout the discussions about them and thus > nothing is done to make such usages less nice. For example, this would > be additional reason to avoid newlines in the input.
Oh, don't worry. I'm not about to let input() return a string ending in a newline; that would just add an unnecessary hurdle to one's first program. I suppose that when input() is implemented as a dialog box, there could be a Cancel button that causes it to raise EOFError. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
