On Apr 10, 8:12 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "jmDesktop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Two new versions of the language are currently in development: version
> | 2.6, which retains backwards compatibility with previous releases; and
> | version 3.0, which breaks backwards compatibility to the extent that
> | even that simplest of programs, the classic 'Hello, World', will no
> | longer work in its current form.
>
> That change is however, the one most immediately visible to new
> programmers. Most of the other statements are pretty much unchanged. In
> any case, 'print' is an easy-to-use facade over sys.stdout.write(), with
> default formatting. If really concerned about it, start programs with
> import sys
> write = sys.stdout.write
> and use that to write out explicitly formatted strings. (Some people
> routinely do this for production code anyway.)
>
> tjr
Some C tragics do things like this, which appear to be 3.0-proof:
def fprintf(f, fmt, *vargs):
f.write(fmt % vargs)
Cheers,
John
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