[Python-Dev] deprecate input()?

[Guido van Rossum]

>     Guido> Why?  I imagine this is only used for interactive input,
>     Guido> and then it's the computer's owner who is typing.
> 
> Yes, but what if the program containing calls to input() get shipped
> to someone else's computer?  It just seems to me that a) input is
> almost never what you want to call and that b) it would seem to a
> naive programmer to be the correct way to ask the user for a line of
> input.

I don't see the security problem.  Can you explain a scenario where
this causes a security risk?  If the user of the program types
something evil in the input box they screw themselves!

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