Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: >Em Dom, 2006-04-02 às 10:41 -0700, James Thiele escreveu: > > >>Martin chimedin: >> >> >>>James Thiele wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I noticed in PEP 3000 that print will become a function. The PEP >>>>references a thread where Guido explains this decision. The thread does >>>>not specify what the function will return. Has this been decided? >>>> >>>> >>>My intuition is that it should be a procedure (i.e. returning None). >>>What do you want it to return? >>> >>>Regards, >>>Martin >>> >>> >>The string that was printed. It could be useful inside expessions: >> >>message = "I don't need to see all of this:%s" % print(s) >> >> > >Or maybe: > >for i in sequence: > mylist.append(print(i)) > > > No no, please NO! You *know* that someday you'll want the return value without actually printing the text.
So let's don't overload a single function with two operations. Let "print" print, and propose a separate function (named "format" --yuck-- or some such) that returns the same text as a string. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
