[Tutor] two input acceptions

[Kent Johnson]

Bob Gailer wrote:
> Alan Gauld wrote:

>> input() by contrast reads the string input by the user and tries 
>> to evaluate it as a Python expression. Thus if the user typed
>>
>> import os;os.system('format c:\')
>>   
> Err... are you confusing eval with exec?
> 
> input( 	[prompt])
> 
>     Equivalent to eval(raw_input(prompt)). 

Yes he is but it doesn't matter; how about
__import__('os').system('format c:\')
?

See the many discussions about safe eval on comp.lang.python for more 
examples of evil things you can do with eval.

Kent