thread specific sys.stdout?

[Peter Hansen]

aurora wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:14:47 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch 
>> class ThreadPrinter:
>>     def __init__(self):
>>         _.fhs = {}
>>
>>     def write(self, value):
>>         f = _.fhs.get(threading.currentThread(),
....

> Thanks this is a nice idea. I hope Python would actually support the 
> '_'  syntax. The self really reduce readablity, especially if you have 
> several  of them in one line.

It does!  One just has to be consistent within each function.
Diez changed the code from something like this:

def __init__(_):
     _.fhs = {}

def write(_, value):
     f = _.fhs.get(threading.currentThread(),
...

Some would argue that this is actually less readable, however,
since it uses punctuation instead of a word.  If nothing else,
you run into a bit of a conflict between your own technique,
with "_", and the vast majority of the rest of the Python world,
which uses "self" exclusively, leading to situations like this
one...

(I think if I had a routine that really heavily used self,
to the obvious detriment of readability, and it wasn't clear
how else to improve it, I would use a local assignment at
the top to make a shorter name, perhaps "s", or even "_" --
but I wouldn't use the possibility of such a thing as a
justification for using _ everywhere.)

-Peter