Again: Please hear my plea: print without softspace

[Martin Bless]

["Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com>]

>but only because 'sys.stdout.write' is too long to type all
>the time, and never with more than one argument.

Yes, I feel it's a pity that the standard write method of file objects
doesn't take multiple arguments. Would take some of the pressure.

One thing I can do since Python-2.2 is to inherit from 'file' and add
for example a 'writem' (write many, write multiple) method. This does
work.

Unfortunately it seems I can't add that 'writem' method to sys.stdout,
as the following shows.

Anybody any ideas?


#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
"""Test file object."""

__author__ = "Martin Bless, 2004-03-03"

if 1 and "this does work":
    class MyFile(file):

        def writem(self,*args):
            "Method to write many arguments."
            for arg in args:
                self.write(str(arg))

    f2name = 'xxxtempfile'
    f2 = MyFile(f2name,'w')
    f2.writem(1,2,3,4)
    f2.close()


if 1 and "this does not work with sys.stdout":
    """
    Attempt to add a method to a class at runtime.
    See Python Cookbook or ASPN,
    Object-Oriented Programming, Brett Cannon.
    """
    import sys
    def writem(self,*args):
        "Function to be turned into a method.."
        for arg in args:
            self.write(str(arg))
    # will not work
    setattr(sys.stdout.__class__,'writem',writem)

    """The above 'setattr' will give this error:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "test_file_object.py", line 33, in ?
        setattr(sys.stdout.__class__,'writem',writem)
    TypeError: can't set attributes of built-in/extension type 'file'
    """

mb - Martin Bless