Again: Please hear my plea: print without softspace

[Gerrit]

Josiah Carlson wrote:
> It seems that you are saying:
> 
> print "hello ", "world" +   #-> "hello world"
> 
> That looks like "magic syntax", and should rightfully return a syntax 
> error, because + already has a meaning for most all data types in 
> Python.  Changing the behavior of print when a syntax error is present, 
> is the wrong thing to do.

It can be done the other way around:
>>> class Mystr(str):
...  def __pos__(self):
...   if self.endswith(' '): return self[:-1]
...   else: return self
...
>>> m = Mystr("abc ")
>>> print +m, "bla"
abc bla

...although I prefer sys.stdout.write.

Gerrit.

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