join()

[Adam Sampson]

aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> >What other things in Python have become non-intuitive in your opinion?
> 
> print >> file, "foo"

I don't see why that needs to be part of the language.

class ShiftWriter:
	"""A writer class which works like C++'s ostream. For instance:
	o = ShiftWriter(sys.stdout)
	o << "This is a list: " << [1, 2, 3] << "\n"
	"""
	file = None
	def __init__(self, file): 
		self.file = file
	def __lshift__(self, arg):
		self.file.write(str(arg))
		return self

import sys
o = ShiftWriter(sys.stdout)
o << "This is a list: " << [1, 2, 3] << " and a number: " << 3 << "\n"
o << "I hate C++.\n"

If people want this (bleurgh), why not just add the __lshift__ method
to file objects?

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Adam Sampson
azz at gnu.org