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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 16:09:02 CEST 2005

Paul Moore wrote:

Hmm... This prompts a coding question - is it possible to recognise which arguments to a function are generators, so that you could write

output(1, 2, [3,4], (c for c in 'abc'), 'def', (5, 6)) and get 1 2 [3, 4] a b c def (5, 6) ? At the simplest level, an explicit check for types.GeneratorType would work, but I'm not sure if there's a more general check that might might work - for example, iter((1,2,3)) may be a candidate for looping over, where (1,2,3) clearly (? :-)) isn't. Maybe "iter(arg) is arg" is the right check... Of course, there's a completely separate question as to whether magic this subtle is advisable...

If an iterator wants to behave like that, the iterator should define the appropriate str method. Otherwise, just break it up into multiple lines:

write(1, 2, [3,4]) write(*(c for c in 'abc')) writeln('def', (5, 6))

Cheers, Nick.

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