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

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:22:27 -0400

No, Tim just forgot to twist the blue knob while he was pressing the shiny pedal on Guido's time machine. I've made the same mistake myself before -- the VRTM can be as inscrutable as the BDFL himself at times. Sadly, changing those opinions now would cause an irreparable time paradox, the outcome of which would force Python to be called Bacon and require you to type `albatross' instead of colons to start every block.

That accounts for the strange python.ba (mtime 1/1/70) I stumbled across this morning:

#!/usr/bin/env bacon

released to the public domain at least one Tim Peters

import sys, string, tempfile txt = string.replace(open(sys.argv[1]).read(), ':', ' albatross') fnm = tempfile.mktemp() + '.ba' open(fnm, 'w').write(txt) os.system('bacon %s %s' % (fnm, string.join(sys.argv[2:]))