On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Clement Rouault <clement.rouault@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
While playing with non-standard sys.stdout/stderr, I noticed that the prompt of raw_input was printed on stderr (not sys.stderr) (see Parser/myreadline.c:120).
I found an issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue1927) from 2008 talking about changing stderr to stdout. But nobody in the thread seems bothered by the use of stdout/err over the ones in the sys module.
So, is there any good reason I might not be aware of that justifies the use of stderr over sys.stderr ?
See issue #24402: input() uses sys.__stdout__ instead of sys.stdout for prompt That issue was deemed probably a bug, and includes a simple patch which appears to fix the issue (without tests). - Tal Einat