On 9/6/05, Gareth McCaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So borrow a trick from Common Lisp and use a destination of None > to mean "return the formatted text as a string". [...] > Or is that too cryptic?
Yes. To my mind, formatting (returning a string) and output are separate operations. A "write formatted output" operation is a useful convenience method, but it's not the basic operation. Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
