[Guido van Rossum] > And good riddance! The print statement harks back to ABC and even > (unvisual) Basic. Out with it!
[Barry Warsaw] > I have to strongly disagree. The print statement is simple, easy to > understand, and easy to use. [Paul Moore] > I agree with Barry. In particular, the behaviour of adding spaces > between items is something I find very useful, and it's missing from > the functional forms. While I agree that mostly the print statement is "simple, easy to understand, and easy to use", I've seen the trailing-comma version cause confusion for a lot of newbies. I wouldn't mind at all if the trailing-comma version disappeared in Python 3.0 -- if you need this kind of complicated output, you can always use sys.stdout.write and/or string formatting. The spaces-between-items point that Paul Moore makes is IMHO the best argument against the proposed write*() functions. I think we *do* need a statement or function of some sort that does the most basic task: writing a line to sys.stdout that calls str() on each of the elements and joins them with spaces. That is, I think we need to keep *something* with functionality like: def XXX(*args): sys.stdout.write('%s\n' % ' '.join(str(a) for a in args)) Note that this would keep the Hello World example simple: XXX(greeting, name) STeVe -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ 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