PEP 214 - Why not print >> string?

[Aaron Swartz]

On 2002-10-01 11:16 AM, in article
M1k%7.10891$wd4.1322364 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com, "Steve Holden"
<sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, this would seem to require that a variable name be bound to a
> string value in order to indicate that the result of the print statement
> should overwrite it. Then the prints are rebinding the named variable
> (obviously, since the string values are immutable). This seems a little
> bizarre.

I'm not sure I see why. It would function similarly to += on strings.
    print >> string, 'value'
would be equivalent to:
    string += 'value'
(except you'd get the nice print formatting rules).

> Why not Perl? ;-)

Zing!

(I must admit I don't like the >> symbol...)

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