sys.stdin.readline() reads without prompt, returning 'nothing in between'

Question

I have a function that executes the following (among other things):

userinput = stdin.readline()
betAmount = int(userinput)

Is supposed to tak

Answer 1

import sys
userinput = sys.stdin.readline()
betAmount = int(userinput)

print betAmount

This works on my system. I checked int('23\n') would result in 23.