[Python-3000] Pre-PEP: Simple input built-in in Python 3000

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> But they typically aren't used to entering EOF either; EOF is not
> exactly a typical input in an interactive program, and having to enter
> it typically means you're talking to a Unix utility that's not really
> designed for interactive use.

the progression I had in mind was

    1. literals, simple operations, printing the result
    2. reading input from the console, simple operations, printing
       the result
    3. reading input from a file, simple operations, printing the
       result

the jump between 2 and 3 is a bit too large in today's Python.

another way to address that would be to add standard input and output 
*objects* (which delegates to sys.stdin/stdout) to the builtin name- 
space; after all:

    input.readline()

is pretty self-documenting, even if you don't really understand dotted 
notation just yet.

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