print bypasses calling write method for objects inheriting from file?

[Peter Otten]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

> En Wed, 30 May 2007 04:24:30 -0300, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>
> escribió:
> 
>>> I created an object that inherits from file and was a bit surprised to
>>> find that print seems to bypass the write method for objects
>>> inheriting from file.  An optimization I suppose.  Does this surprise
>>> anyone else at all or am I missing something?
>>
>> No, your analysis is correct, though I'd consider optimization an
>> euphemism
>> for bug here. Noone was annoyed enough to write a patch, it seems.
> 
> A one-line patch, I guess, PyFile_CheckExact instead of PyFile_Check. Or a
> few lines, checking if the write method is still the builtin one. As this
> is the third time I see this question I'll try to submit the patch.

Good idea ;) Don't know if it is still applicable, but here's a patch by
Jeff Epler:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/91d46ff2e05e1476

Peter