> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
