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

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sun Sep 4 00:40:19 CEST 2005

I do hate having to write two parentheses -- it's more than the extra keystrokes. It's that I have to use two shifted characters and I have to be sure to close the construct, which can be a PITA when the start of the function call is separated from the end by many lines.

What I found is that while this can be a real annoyance for some code, there are some beneficial trade-offs that make this palatable...

So for permanent code, I think it's a decent trade-off. We lose something but we gain something. I'll mourn the syntax highlighting loss (or end up hacking python-mode) but oh well.

Wouldn't it make sense then to replace the "print" statement with a "printf" statement? Then you'd get the formatting, and wouldn't have to type the parentheses. I don't see an argument for moving to a function; indeed, there's an argument against. What you want is a fancier print.

Bill

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