[Python-Dev] deprecate input()?

[Guido van Rossum]

> I just responded to a question on c.l.py a user had about feeding empty
> strings to input().  While he didn't say why he called input(), I suspect he
> thought the semantics were more like raw_input().
> 
> In these days of widespread Internet nastiness, shouldn't input() be
> deprecated?

Why?  I imagine this is only used for interactive input, and then it's
the computer's owner who is typing.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)