I just checked Python 2.7.14. This behavior has not changed.

#!/usr/bin/env pythopn

print raw_input('test: ')


(Note that raw_input is what the input from six maps to on Python 2.x.)

$ python test.py > py.log
hi
$ cat py.log
test: hi
$ python test.py 2> py.log
hi
hi
$ cat py.log
test: 


The original bug was saying that the user doesn't get a prompt if redirecting to stdout (due to using the equivalent of rbt diff). That bug is still present with modern Python.
The real problem here is that the comment is bad. The right solution is probably to have a wrapper function so we aren't working around this in multiple locations.

These were issues on modern Python 2.7. The problem was with macOS, not a bug in Python.
It does look like it's fixed as of macOS 10.12.6, according to the bug report. I wonder if we want to keep this and do a version check along with the "darwin" check.

We should handle any normalization required in get_input(), instead of passing str() here, just to ensure consistency and prevent workarounds in specific calls.

Ship It!