gratuitous new features in 2.0

[John W. Baxter]

In article <m1u2c5rucd.fsf at bertrand.carcosa.net>, jmcbray at carcosa.net 
(Jason F. McBrayer) wrote:

> >>>>> "JWB" == John W Baxter <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> writes:
> 
> JWB> I *suspect* that I won't make much use of print >> ..., but instead 
> keep 
> JWB> on getting a file(-like) object and using its write().
> 
> Yes, but you'll have to debug and maintain other people's code that
> was written using print >>.  Won't that be fun?
> 
> Imho the best solution I've seen is printto(1, "foo", bar, 
> file=sys.stdout)
> as a builtin function.  No new syntax, and you get to keep all the
> automagic stuff that print does.


OK, gang.  print >> file, is coming.  It's workable, and it's not 
mandatory.  (And if it becomes deprecated in Python 3000 many (not all) 
of the same people currently bashing it will suddenly be its defenders.)  
The fact that I will probably tend not to use it much won't keep me from 
understanding it and maintaining code which uses it.

Guido has explained why he and the developer group decided on this 
rather than functions and methods and new keywords and...

Let's move on.  As I plan to...I'll be filtering out this thread and 
related threads after the middle of the week.

   --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com