[Python-Dev] PEP 214, extended print statement (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:47:04 -0400

[Greg Ewing]

Looks reasonably good. Not entirely sure I like the look of >> though -- a bit too reminiscent of C++.

How about print to myfile, x, y, z

[Barry Warsaw]

Not bad at all. Seems quite Pythonic to me.

Me too! +1 on changing ">>" to "to" here. Then we can introduce

x = print from myfile, 3

as a synonym for

x = myfile.read(3)

too .

People should know that Guido doesn't seem to like the idea of letting print specify the output target at all. "Why not?" "Because people say print is pretty useless anyway, for example, when they want to write to something other than stdout." "But that's the whole point of this change! To make print more useful!" "Well, but then ...". After years of channeling, you get a feel for when to change the subject and bring it up again later as if it were brand new .

half-of-channeling-is-devious-persuasion-ly y'rs - tim