[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 12:07:11 CEST 2005

Tony Meyer wrote:

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maybe a few folks can go off and write up a PEP for a print-replacement. [...] I'm pulling out of the discussion until I see a draft PEP. If there are two competing proposals, then the two groups write a PEP and counter-PEP and the PEPs duke it out. Is this still the case if proposal B is very nearly the status quo? IOW, would writing a "Future of the print statement in Python 3.0" counter PEP that kept print as a statement be appropriate? If not, other than python-dev posting (tiring out the poor summary guys <0.5 wink>), what is the thing to do?

Keeping print as a statement is certainly one of the options I'm considering, so I don't think a counter-PEP is warranted just yet. There isn't even a PEP to be a counter to - it's all still on the Wiki at the moment.

The more I play with it, the more I believe the part I have a problem with is a weakness in the string formatting for iterables.

The point about not needing parentheses for conditionals where a lot of other languages require them is a good one - I'm sure I write print statements nearly as often as I write conditionals.

Cheers, Nick.

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