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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Sep 6 16:33:36 CEST 2005

(just my 2 cents)

Le mardi 06 septembre 2005 à 07:23 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :

On 9/6/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > printf('$1 forgot to frobnicate the $2!\n', username, file.name, > to=sys.stderr) Is it worth doing this and completely dropping the %-based formats in Py3k? (Just asking -- it might be if we can get people to get over the shock of $ becoming first class ;-).

For me, the problem with that proposal is not the precise format syntax, but the fact that formatting is tied to a specific function which also outputs stuff to screen.

There are really use cases where you want formatting without using a "print" function in conjunction. Web pages, sending notification e-mails, changing labels in GUI apps... anything that talks to the user in a different way than using stdout.

IMO, printing and formatting must be distinct (*). And formatting should be convenient and i18n-friendly (i18n is more and more important in today's apps).

(*) they should be treated separately in the discussion, anyway

Regards

Antoine.

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