Thinking about "print >>"

[Roy Smith]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have you noticed the quote characters Roy carefully placed around the
> word 'print'?  One reason quotes are used in English is to imply "...so
> to speak", i.e., not-literally.  In Roy's sentence that you quote, in other
> words, there is no implication that the method be named by the 5-letter
> string 'print'; on the contrary, its form affords an inference that he
> thinks it would be otherwise-named.

Good inference.  Unfortunately, it's wrong; I did intend that "print" 
would be the name.  I don't suppose that helps much, does it? :-)