On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 08:23:31PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 11:18 AM Steven D'Aprano > > > why one couldn't just use the redirect_stdout context manager. > > > > (Plus not-yet-existing, but hopefully soon, redirect_stdin.) > > > I have no use for this but thread safety could be an issue.
No more of an issue than it is for other context managers, or for setting sys.stdio directly. > I have no idea if that’s an issue for the kinds of programs this might be > used in, but always good to keep in mind. > > Also — is it that hard to write raw_input()? I feared this would happen... mea culpa. I wrote: **Long before we had context managers**, I manually redirected stdin and stdout to programmatically feed input and capture output from `raw_input`. Emphasis added. When I wrote it I feared that people wouldn't remember that "before we had context managers" was like Python 2.4 or older (by memory), and so what we call input today was called raw_input back then. So I don't need to *write* raw_input, because it already exists :-) But what I do need is a nice and reliable way to feed values into input as if they were typed by the user, and to capture the output of input. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/R6DTLF7G2PCZJV7BAO2GYQMM66C4AFDF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
