From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:16:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change the description of input() -- it is exactly equivalent to
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~457
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=777dcc6b21573056ec51b5642ca989581140c4d9;p=python

Change the description of input() -- it is exactly equivalent to
eval(raw_input(s)).  The statement about breaking a long expression
over multiple lines is no longer true.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 134573464b..451c1a8e27 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -273,11 +273,7 @@ module from which it is called).
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{input}{\optional{prompt}}
-  Almost equivalent to \code{eval(raw_input(\var{prompt}))}.  Like
-  \function{raw_input()}, the \var{prompt} argument is optional, and the
-  \module{readline} module is used when loaded.  The difference
-  is that a long input expression may be broken over multiple lines using
-  the backslash convention.
+  Equivalent to \code{eval(raw_input(\var{prompt}))}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{intern}{string}