[BangPypers] Basic of basic question

Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे mandarvaze at gmail.com
Wed May 8 18:42:07 CEST 2013


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my 7+ years of Python programming I've never used the input/raw_input
> functions. People coming from C background look for a scanf replacement in
> Python, but that is now the way things are done in Python.

Yeah. I agree. In fact even in "C" for real-world programs, one uses
command line args to get the user input (That way it can be scripted
and executed unattended as well.)

Same thing (command line args) can (should) be done for "real world"
python programs as well.

-Mandar


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