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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 10🔞10 CEST 2005

On 9/2/05, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

Jim Jewett wrote: > Putting the spaces back in (without a format string) would > be even worse. Charles Cazabon's pointed out that it could > be as simple as > > writeln(' '.join( ... ))

Why not just offer an addition method ? examine(x,y,z) # print with spaces

Because we're now up to four stream methods, plus the same number of builtins, to do what one statement currently does?

(BTW, the ' '.join() idiom has a minor disadvantage in that it builds the output string, whereas print doesn't. Not a major issue, given the typical sizes of strings to be output, but it's another cost nevertheless...)

Paul.

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