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

skip@pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Sat Sep 3 00:12:53 CEST 2005 

Steven> Obviously print is used by the rest of us too -- I count around
Steven> 5000 instances in my installation.  However, I only count around
Steven> 400 instances where a "print" line ends with a comma.

I took a quick look at my own code:

980 active print statements
110 active print statements with trailing commas
 67 active print statements with output redirection
  6 active print statements with trailing commas and output redirection
 64 inactive print statements
  4 inactive print statements with trailing commas
  6 inactive print statements with output redirection
  1 inactive print statement with trailing commas and output redirection

so more than 10% of the print statements in my code use the trailing comma feature and more than 5% use output redirection. I suspect the discrepancy between use of the two features would be less if output redirection had been available from the start.

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