[Tutor] two input acceptions

[Rolando Pereira]

adam urbas escreveu:
> Thanks for the help.  I've made quite some progress since I first posted this email.  I have a question though, what did you mean when you were talking about the raw_input( )?  How can the regular input( ) be used evilly?  If you could explain in depth, I would be very grateful.  I have a new question related to my program area.py., I guess it's the same one as before.  When I run the program and input the rectangle option, it asks me for a radius, unless I input 1, instead of rectangle.  How do I program it to accept both 1 and rectangle?> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 18:55:20 +0100> From: finalyugi at sapo.pt> To: adamurbas at hotmail.com> CC: tutor at python.org> Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)> > adam urbas escreveu:> > Hi,I just started python today and I would like a few pointers, if you don't mind.  I tried using a tutorial, but was only able to get the correct results for the most basic problems.  # Area calculation programprint “Welcome to the Area calculation program”print “––
–––––––––––”print# Print out the menu:print “Please select a shape:”print “1  Rectangle”print “2  Circle”# Get the user’s choice:shape = input(“> “)# Calculate the area:if shape == 1:    height = input(“Please enter the height: “)    width = input(“Please enter the width: “)    area = height*width    print “The area is”, areaelse:    radius = input(“Please enter the radius: “)    area = 3.14*(radius**2)    print “The area is”, areaI've been trying to get this to work.  I was on a forum on Google and they said to put:input("press ENTER to continue")at the end.  I did, but it didn't work.  It runs the program but just shuts itself off when its done and i don't even get to select any of the option things that i'm s> upposed to be able to select.  It just turns on then back off and I don't even get to see anything.  Could someone help me out.ThanksAdam> > _________________________________________________________________> > Create the ultimate e-mail address book. Import your cont
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lso another thing. Don't use input() to get the user input, because > that command can run code and it may be evilly used. Always use > raw_input() instead :D .> > Anyway, I hope I helped you,> > > -- >                         _> ASCII ribbon campaign ( )>   - against HTML email  X>               & vCards / \
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First of all, what email client are you using?
Because the text is getting all weird and difficult to read (it's all in 
one line, with no paragraphs and things like that).

Now, the thing about input() and why it's not a good policy to use is 
that, unlike raw_input(), what type in a input() is executed by Python 
(in raw_input() is stored as a string).

Example:

var = raw_input()
 >> list("LOL")

Now we have a variable called var which contains the string that says 
'list("LOL")'
You can confirm that by typing:
print var
 >> 'list("LOL")

There, no harm done. Now let's try the same thing using the input() command:

var = input()
 >> list("LOL")

Now let's type "print var" again as we did before.

print var
 >> ['L', 'O'. 'L']

Now what happened? Because you used the input() command, what you type 
was interpreted by Python, instead of being stored in a string and since 
the list() command is used to create a list, Python did just that. He 
created a list. Now, in this example, no harm was done. But image 
someone typing the command os.system("command to delete some file or run 
some file"). That would send a delete command to the terminal, or 
install some file (it could even be a virus).

Ok, it's a little harder to explain, but the thing you should is that 
usually raw_input() = GOOD, input() = BAD.




Now, I couldn't quite understand the second problem.
Please explain a little better.

PS: Now I know why I see all posts messed up. It's because you're 
sending your emails as a HTML, and I deactivated that on my email 
client. I don't know if Hotmail (I believe you send you emails from 
there) as an option to turn off HTML. If it was please use it :D
(Besides being nice, you can get more responses if you do that. Not 
everyone has an HTML capable email client.)

PS2 (no, not the console): I just noticed you didn't send the email back 
  to the mailing list. You should select reply to all (or a similar 
option) when replying to mailing list, so that other people can learn too.



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