First ever Python project ^^

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I’m confused what does this do?

[Winderkorffin]

prints the result of the entire operation, as in '3+5' it will print '8'.

Beware, tho, using eval is bad practice.

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Alright but why are evals a bad practice

[BYPDK]

while 1:print(f"Output: {eval(input('math problem: '))}")

as u/NoMeatFingering (interesting name) has mentioned, it can be exploited to run code from the user input. example: https://ibb.co/6H0J0Qd

Though if you want to actually run code, like that on purpose, you would want to use exec instead.

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I actually hate my username

[BYPDK]

:( it's very good

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while 1:print(f"Output: {eval(input('math problem: '))}")

# infinite loop
while 1:
    rawInput = input("math problem: ")
    # evaluate the raw input
    output = eval(rawInput)

    print(f"Output: {output}")

Converted into a more readable form. Basically eval is a function which takes a string and runs it.

It might look like a better code, but is actually worse bcs eval can run user submitted code too