From 777dcc6b21573056ec51b5642ca989581140c4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:16:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

---
 Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 134573464b9..451c1a8e277 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}