Can someone please help me out with this code in python

Question

if I write the code
a=list(str(input()))
print(a),and enter 12-3
it should give ['1' ,'2' ,'-' , '3'] but it gives ['9'] as result, basically it works if I enter non negative integers ,but misbehaves when a negative sign is entered......I tried this in sololearn code playground and it works there but doesent in pycharm or cpython........pls help
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Answer 1

Hmmm. It works fine on Pydroid3 and VS Code. BTW you never need to write str(input()) because input() always outputs a string. 🙂

Answer 2

vardaan raj singh I think you must be using Python 2.x yes? raw_input() was renamed input() in Python 3.0

Answer 3

thnx for the advice sir,
btw I got it ,u r right I have to write raw_input() so that special characters are also accounted for,I tried this and it accepts it now

Answer 4

yep !