636 To read user input you can try the cmd module for easily creating a mini-command line interpreter (with help texts and autocompletion) and raw_input (input for Python 3+) for reading a line of text …

$ python foo.py tok tiktok Some input please: bar baz bar baz Here, $ represents the command-line prompt (so you don't actually type that), and I hit Enter after typing bar baz when it asked for input. …

I highly recommend argparse which comes with Python 2.7 and later. The argparse module reduces boiler plate code and makes your code more robust, because the module handles all standard use …

As blocking on keyboard input (since the input() function blocks) is frequently not what we want to do (we'd frequently like to keep doing other stuff), here's a very-stripped-down multi-threaded example …

Mar 14, 2013 · Now because the evaluating input is not really that useful (and eval is evil), the behaviour of input got replaced by Python 2’s raw_input in Python 3. The author of your tutorial most likely used …

Accepts backspace input Outputs * character (DEC: 42 ; HEX: 0x2A) instead of the input character Demerits: Works on Windows only The function secure_password_input() returns the password as a …

How do I read from standard input (stdin)? There's a few ways to do it. sys.stdin is a file-like object on which you can call functions read or readlines if you want to read everything or you want to read …

Nov 2, 2014 · I'm trying to teach myself how to code in Python and this is my first time posting to Stack Overflow, so please excuse any improprieties in this post. But let's get right to it. I'm trying to use the …

May 22, 2015 · 0 There are a number of options to parse command line arguments into a Python script. There's the standard library's optparse and argparse for instance. A really nice 3rd party tool is …

Save the file, open your python script in the editor and 'start without debugging' again. This should launch an integrated terminal where you can give input as well as see the output.