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

BJörn Lindqvist bjourne at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 23:11:16 CEST 2005

Something I've noticed from teaching C++ to newbies, is that you should NOT (never ever) start with "cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;". You should start with "printf("Hello, world\n");" The cout thingy is impossible to explain to a newbie because it uses much underlying "magic" and has a very different behaviour from everything else a newbie sees in C++. It therefore causes lots of confusion. I wonder if the magic of "print" might have the same effect on newcomers to Python, whos first experience is "print 'Hello, world!'"... It would be very interesting to know.

-- mvh Björn

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