[Python-Dev] (214) (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:06:57 +0200

Tim Peters wrote:

[Just van Rossum] > (Just to make sure you guys know; there's currently a thread in c.l.py > about the new 2.0 features. Not a single person stood up to defend > PEP 214: noone seems to like it.) But that's not true! I defended it .

Count me in on that one too... it's just great for adding a few quick debugging prints into the program.

The only thing I find non-Pythonesque is that an operator is used. I would have opted for something like:

print on <stream> x,y,z

instead of

print >> <stream> x,y,z

But I really don't mind since I don't use "print" in production code for anything other than debugging anyway :-)

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