Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I don't know why input() is the equivalent of eval(raw_input(prompt)), but > it is. Presumably Guido thought it was a good idea at the time.
possibly inspired by ABC's "READ" and "READ RAW" commands:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/qr.html
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