[Tutor] What's the difference between raw_input and input?

[Dick Moores]

Bob Gailer wrote at 09:00 9/20/2004:
>At 09:12 AM 9/20/2004, W X Liu wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Does anybody know What's the difference between raw_input and input?
>
>Have you looked them up in the Python Reference? I suggest you do so. We 
>like to help, but we hesitate to spend valuable time answering questions 
>that can be easily looked up. If you do not understand what the 
>reference says, come back and tell us what the problem is.

The question made me realize I didn't know the difference either. My 
attempts to get the answer turned up only this description of raw_imput():

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raw_input( [prompt])

If the prompt argument is present, it is written to standard output 
without a trailing newline. The function then reads a line from input, 
converts it to a string (stripping a trailing newline), and returns that. 
When EOF is read, EOFError is raised. Example:

 >>> s = raw_input('--> ')
--> Monty Python's Flying Circus
 >>> s
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"

If the readline module was loaded, then raw_input() will use it to 
provide elaborate line editing and history features.
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But nothing about input() in the "Python 2.3 Documentation" relevant to 
the question. But I probably don't yet know my way perfectly around the docs.

Dick Moores