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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Sep 2 13:50:48 CEST 2005

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 17:49, Bob Ippolito wrote:

That is absolutely true, print is becoming less and less useful in the context of GUI or web applications.

I know we're dinosaurs, but some of us still write console apps in Python!

Even in Just Debugging scenarios, you're probably better off using something with more flexibility, such as the logging module.

The logging module is great, but logging and debugging are two different things (although that fact is obscured when you don't have a console).

print is useful in scenarios other than debugging. And while I do occasionally use it, I wouldn't be too heartbroken if the trailing comma form were lost. I /would/ mourn the loss of print>> though -- not necessarily the syntax, which was clearly a compromise, but the functionality. If we could have spelled it "print to sys.stderr" we would have.

-Barry

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