On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote: > But more important to me are my own experiences exploring the > boundaries of print. > > - I quite often come to a point in the evolution of a program where I > need to change all print statements into logging calls, or calls into > some other I/O or UI library. [...]
FWIW, this almost always happens to me. Although I've learned to avoid print in most cases, it was a somewhat painful lesson that seems quite at odds with how the rest of Python is designed -- usually, stuff just works and you aren't led into such design traps. - Stephan _______________________________________________ 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
