[Tutor] Functions and lists.

[lumbricus@gmx.net]

> At 16:22 2002-08-13 -0500, SA wrote:

Hello!

> >import string
> ...
> >value = string.strip(sys.stdin.readline())

This is usually done with
value=string.strip(raw_input("prompt> "))
IMHO

> Just a detail: As of Python 2.0 (or 1.6?) we
> have string methods, and can type
> 
> value = sys.stdin.readline().strip()

value=raw_input("prompt> ").strip()

> instead of
> 
> import string
> value = string.strip(sys.stdin.readline())
> 
> Unfortunately, most books are still covering 1.5.2...

Thats not so unfortunately, because many people still
get 1.5.x with the distribution. It would kill
their python ambitions when none of the example codes worked.
 
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Greetings, J"o!

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