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

Martin Blais martin.blais at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 06:40:42 CEST 2005

On 9/1/05, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> Providing you can live with adding a pair of parentheses to that, you can > have: > > def print(*args): > sys.stdout.write(' '.join(args) + '\n') > > I think the language would be cleaner if it lacked this weird exception for > print.

Charles, I agree that it would be cleaner. I just don't think cleanliness is all that interesting -- usefulness trumps it every time. And if

Talking about cleanliness, I'm not sure which is cleaner::

print >> sys.stderr, "This is a long sentence that I "
"had to cut in two."

print("This is a long sentence that I " "had to cut in two.", stream=sys.stderr)

Sometimes I'll do this because I don't like the backslashes::

print >> sys.stderr, ("This is a long sentence that " "Had to cut in two.")

Also, I find the ">>" syntax has always bothered me.
I find it useful but so out-of-place in the language.

+1 for removing the print statement.

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