raw_input function in Python

What is the raw_input function? Is it a user interface? When do we use it?

Answers:

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Method 1

It presents a prompt to the user (the optional arg of raw_input([arg])), gets input from the user and returns the data input by the user in a string. See the docs for raw_input().

Example:

name = raw_input("What is your name? ")
print "Hello, %s." % name

This differs from input() in that the latter tries to interpret the input given by the user; it is usually best to avoid input() and to stick with raw_input() and custom parsing/conversion code.

Note: This is for Python 2.x

Method 2

raw_input() was renamed to input() in Python 3.

From http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html

Method 3

raw_input is a form of input that takes the argument in the form of a string whereas the input function takes the value depending upon your input.
Say, a=input(5) returns a as an integer with value 5 whereas
a=raw_input(5) returns a as a string of “5”

Method 4

The “input” function converts the input you enter as if it were python code. “raw_input” doesn’t convert the input and takes the input as it is given. Its advisable to use raw_input for everything.
Usage:

>>a = raw_input()
>>5
>>a
>>'5'

Method 5

Another example method, to mix the prompt using print, if you need to make your code simpler.

Format:-

x = raw_input () — This will return the user input as a string

x= int(raw_input()) — Gets the input number as a string from raw_input() and then converts it to an integer using int().

print 'nWhat's your name ?', 
name = raw_input('--> ')
print 'nHow old are you, %s?' % name,
age = int(raw_input())
print 'nHow tall are you (in cms), %s?' % name,
height = int(raw_input())
print 'nHow much do you weigh (in kgs), %s?' % name,
weight = int(raw_input())

print 'nSo, %s is %d years old, %d cms tall and weighs %d kgs.n' %(
name, age, height, weight)

Method 6

The raw_input() function reads a line from input (i.e. the user) and returns a string

Python v3.x as raw_input() was renamed to input()

PEP 3111: raw_input() was renamed to input(). That is, the new input() function reads a line from sys.stdin and returns it with the trailing newline stripped. It raises EOFError if the input is terminated prematurely. To get the old behavior of input(), use eval(input()).

Ref: Docs Python 3

Method 7

If I let raw_input like that, no Josh or anything else.
It’s a variable,I think,but I don’t understand her roll 🙁

The raw_input function prompts you for input and
returns that as a string. This certainly worked for
me. You don’t need idle. Just open a “DOS prompt”
and run the program.

This is what it looked like for me:

C:temp>type test.py
print "Halt!"
s = raw_input("Who Goes there? ")
print "You may pass,", s

C:temp>python test.py
Halt!
Who Goes there? Magnus
You may pass, Magnus

I types my name and pressed [Enter] after the program
had printed “Who Goes there?”

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