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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 2 06:05:10 CEST 2005

Steven Bethard wrote:

I think we do need a statement or function of some sort that does the most basic task: writing a line to sys.stdout that calls str() on each of the elements and joins them with spaces.

Hypertalk (the programming language of Apple's Hypercard) had an interesting way of doing this. There were two string concatenation operators: a regular one, and a "concatenate with a space between" operator. Using these, you could build up strings for output quite nicely.

It helped somewhat that Hypertalk really only had strings as a data type. A Python version of this operator would need to be willing to convert either or both operands to strings.

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