I strongly dislike Python 3

Stephen Hansen me+list/python at ixokai.io
Mon Jun 28 10:50:55 EDT 2010


On 6/28/10 7:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-06-28, Stefan Behnel<stefan_ml at behnel.de>  wrote:
>> Edward A. Falk, 28.06.2010 16:15:
>>> In article<mailman.2146.1277570052.32709.python-list at python.org>,
>>> Thomas Jollans wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is no reason for print not being a function. Also, do you use
>>>> print *that* much? Really?
>>>
>>> I use it all the time.  Who doesn't?  What do you use instead?
>>
>> Usually file.write() or log.info() and friends. Since you can't really
>> control the encoding used by print(), nor redirect it locally, it's mostly
>> useless for anything but debugging and small scripts.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I find both debugging and small scripts to be
> very useful.

No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such 
contexts.

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