[issue6226] Inconsistent 'file' vs 'stream' kwarg in pprint, other stdlibs

[Philip Jenvey]

New submission from Philip Jenvey <pjenvey at users.sourceforge.net>:

It'd be nice to eventually standardize on the kwarg name used for basic 
file-like args in the stdlib. print, warnings.showwarning and some 
others take a file= argument whereas pprint, getpass.getpass take 
stream=

print and pprint in particular should match -- though they do have a 
different option set, when you're using the same options this 
consistency would ease replacing:

print(obj, file=sys.stderr)
with
pprint(obj, stream=sys.stderr)

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 89020
nosy: pjenvey
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistent 'file' vs 'stream' kwarg in pprint, other stdlibs
type: feature request

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