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(*(x*x 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. 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'. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
