[Python-Dev] [PEP 214] FW: sys.stndout syntax (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:14:25 -0400

TP> For those of you who stopped reading comp.lang.python, note TP> that this is typical of the advice users get in the absence TP> of syntactic "print" sugar.

[Barry]

Which is of course broken, if say, you print an object that has a str() that raises an exception.

Yes, and if you follow that thread on c.l.py, you'll find that it's also typical for the suggestions to get more and more convoluted (for that and other reasons).