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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 7 16:11:43 CEST 2005

On 9/7/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 05:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> But print-ng looks > like becoming the OOWTDI for a lot of applications. IMO it's just too > early to give up on print-ng becoming the one obvious way to do it for > a lot of i18n apps, too. +1. I have a gut feeling that we can make it easy for monolinguists to use printng without caring or even knowing about i18n, but also make it relatively painless to integrate i18n into an application or library. However I haven't had time to really explore that idea.

I certainly didn't mean to rule that out. But I doubt that the only text to be i18n'd will occur in printf format strings. (In fact, I expect that few apps requiring i18n will be so primitive as to use any printf calls at all.)

Anyway, let us hear what you had in mind rather than arguing over some abstract principle.

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