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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 03:51:24 CEST 2005

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 11:02 AM 9/3/2005 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Printing the items in a sequence also becomes straightforward:

print " ".join(map(str, range(10))) => output(*range(10)) Playing well with generator expressions comes for free, too: print " ".join(str(x*x) for x in range(10)) => output((xx for x in range(10))) An implementation issue: that generator expression will get expanded into a tuple, so you shouldn't use that for outputting large sequences.

Agreed - but using join with print suffers from a similar problem, in that it builds the large string in memory before displaying it. I actually hope that extended function call syntax in Py3k will use iterators rather than tuples so that this problem goes away.

I don't much care for 'output' as the name, or 'end' as the end-of-line arguments, but for the most part I like the semantics; being able to drop the separator or change the end-of-line string make lots of use cases straightforward, and perhaps almost worth the parentheses.

My inclination would be to call the function 'print', though, and rename 'end' to 'trailer'.

'print' is Py24 incompatible though, which is why I didn't use it for the sample code. The version I put on the wiki now uses 'term' for the line terminator keyword, but I'm not too worried about the exact names at this point.

Cheers, Nick.

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