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

In Python 2, raw_input() returns a string, and input() tries to run the input as a Python expression.

Since getting a string was almost always what you wanted, Python 3 does that with input(). As Sven says, if you ever want the old behaviour, eval(input()) works.