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

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:11:51 +1200 (NZST)

tim_one:

+1 on changing ">>" to "to" here.

Your +1 might be a bit hasty. I've just realised that a non-reserved word in that position would be ambiguous, as can be seen by considering

print to(myfile), x, y, z

Then we can introduce

x = print from myfile, 3

Actually, for the sake of symmetry, I was going to suggest

input from myfile, x, y ,z

except that the word 'input' is already taken. Bummer.

But wait a moment, we could have

from myfile input x, y, z

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