p = print
p("f")
Voila, 4 keystrokes saved :-)
When I write "print", it is both effortless and instantaneous : my
hands do not move, a wave goes through my fingers, it all happens in a
tenth of a second.
Contrast this with what one has to go through to catch the SHIFT key,
and then the "(" : move the left hand, press SHIFT, move the right
hand, aim "(", press, miss, press again. Same thing at the end of the
function call.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but it does *impair* my debugging
productivity. Taylor would agree.
It's not so much "rediculous" as a failure of your editor to
assist you. In Vim (my editor-of-choice), I'd do something like
:iab print print()<left><bs>
and that's the end of it. Or you could be even lazier if you
don't name your variables "p":
:iab p print()<left>
in which case you can just type
p"
and it automatically populates with
print(")
with the cursor after the double-quote ready for you to type the
string's contents. Net gain: 5 characters in old-Python and 6
characters in new-Python ;-)
Any editor environment worth its salt should allow you to do
things like this (insert abreviated text or template text). The
gains made from making "print" a function far outweigh niggling
things that simple editor-tweaks can overcome.
-tkc
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