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

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:30:23 +0200

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:16:29AM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> >>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> GE> How about > GE> print to myfile, x, y, z

> Not bad at all. Seems quite Pythonic to me.

print to myfile (print a newline on myfile) print to, myfile (print to+" "+myfile to stdout)

Perl has similar syntax, and I always found it horrible.

Agreed. It might be technically unambiguous, but I think it's too hard for a human to parse this correctly. The '>>' version might seem more C++ish and less pythonic, but it also stands out a lot more. The 'print from' statement could easily (and more consistently, IMHO ;) be written as 'print <<' (not that I like the 'print from' idea, though.)

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