[Python-Dev] extended print statement, uPre-PEP

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

    PP> I don't see what proposal you are promoting that doesn't have
    PP> "@" in it?

Forget about @, let's use >> instead.  What I mean by "red herring" is
that it doesn't much matter what the token after print is -- we can
argue about that all we want later.  As long as the token can't appear
in that position with any other meaningful semantics, you're fine.

I've got a very rough set of patches that implement this, and here's
an example that really works.  I'll flesh the patches out and post
them to SF.

-Barry

-------------------- snip snip --------------------print.py
import sys
from StringIO import StringIO

listname = 'mylist'
sender = 'barry@beopen.com'
msg = 'x' * 1000

print 'post to', listname, 'from', sender, 'size=', len(msg)
print >> sys.stdout, 'post to', listname, 'from', sender, 'size=', len(msg)

log = StringIO()
print >> log, 'post to', listname, 'from', sender, 'size=', len(msg)
print log.getvalue(),
-------------------- snip snip --------------------
% ./python /tmp/print.py
post to mylist from barry@beopen.com size= 1000
post to mylist from barry@beopen.com size= 1000
post to mylist from barry@beopen.com size= 1000