[Python-Dev] PEP 214, extended print statement

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:16:29AM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> > >>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> >     GE> How about
> >     GE>    print to myfile, x, y, z

> > Not bad at all.  Seems quite Pythonic to me.

> print to myfile  (print a newline on myfile)
> print to, myfile (print to+" "+myfile to stdout)

> Perl has similar syntax, and I always found it horrible.

Agreed. It might be technically unambiguous, but I think it's too hard for a
*human* to parse this correctly. The '>>' version might seem more C++ish and
less pythonic, but it also stands out a lot more. The 'print from' statement
could easily (and more consistently, IMHO ;) be written as 'print <<' (not
that I like the 'print from' idea, though.)

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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