[Pythoncard-users] Text fields/areas - getting raw input

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Here's a longshot question.  You know how you can write in python:

a=raw_input("write text here")

And basically when you run the program the user is prompted to enter
text, and you get the actual text the user entered.

Is there any way to get raw_input from a text field in pyCard?  Of
course I may already be getting this, but somehow by the time the
query gets to mySQL, it has gotten all mungled.

I feel it is more a problem with the mySQL api if anything, but I was
curious if you guys had any ideas.  I posted a question there which
has more details about the specific problem
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1146165&forum_id=70461

I would really appriciate it if anyone has any ideas at all, I've been
stuck on this problem for 3 days now.  Maybe there's something
fundamental in python I'm doing wrong, but googling didn't turn up
anything useful.

Thanks,

-Greg