What's the difference between `raw_input()` and `input()` in Python 3?

Question

What is the difference between raw_input() and input() in Python 3?

Answer 1

Python 2:

• raw_input() takes exactly what the user typed and passes it back as a string.

• input() first takes the raw_input() and then performs an eval() on it as well.

The main difference is that input() expects a syntactically correct python statement where raw_input() does not.

Python 3:

• raw_input() was renamed to input() so now input() returns the exact string.
• Old input() was removed.

If you want to use the old input(), meaning you need to evaluate a user input as a python statement, you have to do it manually by using eval(input()).