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28 Jan
2016
28 Jan
'16
10:54 a.m.
SilentGhost added the comment: I think it's worth saying that this wasn't a random choice intended to confuse beginners. Strings used represent input that is identical to the command-line input: if one wants to test it, one can just copy that string directly into the propmpt, it might be harder to reconstruct it from a list of strings. ---------- nosy: +SilentGhost _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20598> _______________________________________