Yet another string formatting proposal (Was: python-dev Summary for 2002-11-16 through 2002-11-30)

[Greg Ewing]

Mike Rovner wrote:

> We already have print notion for that purpose. Instead of introducing
> another one, IMHO better extend print to output to a string.
> Syntax may be like
>     print >>var, <expr-list>
> or we can do better.


Actually, that's already taken -- it means to
print to a file.

Possibly it could be

   print >>$var, ...

But I doubt that would satisfy those who advocate
a string-interpolation mechanism, because they're
after something that's more readable than what
print gives you.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg