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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 17🔞00 CEST 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Perhaps if the last non-keyword argument was exactly one space, the newline could be suppressed, e.g.:

print("foo", "bar", "baz", " ", stream=sys.stderr)

Sorry, I missed the newline-suppression idea in my first reply. I think the rule above is too confusing. I'm also still not convinced that the print function needs to support newline-suppression. Since the print function seems to be intended mainly for newbies and simple debugging, I'm having trouble coming up with examples where this is really necessary. I'd like to see a few examples where it's crucial that the final newline is suppressed.

If it has to be supported, I'd add it as a keyword argument, so that your example above reads like:

sys.stderr.print("foo", "bar", "baz", newline=False)

I guess that's not too bad actually. Kinda nice that it has to be the last thing in the function...

STeVe

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