Gratuitous new...

Pablo Prieto pablo.prieto at dulcesol.es
Fri Aug 25 12:30:19 EDT 2000


"Grant Edwards" <ge at nowhere.none> escribió en el mensaje news:xmvp5.7634$6E.1862862 at ptah.visi.com...
> In article <8o5mkq$dcv$1 at icarus.knowledgegroup.co.uk>, Pat Knight wrote:


>From my newbie point of view if you leave print as it is for stdout, you (all of you) can make whatever nightmare you want for the other devices.

> Personally, I don't understand why "print" exists at all.  You
> can accomplish the same thing with sys.stdout.write().  I think
> "print" does way to many automagical things behind the back of
> the programmer:

Change "print" for "python" and sys.stdout.write() for "C" or "C++"

> But, I'm sure it's too late to get rid of the print statement.

Although I'm sure you don't want to change it in this sentence.

Pablo, from Spain, with love to evrybody, evrywhere.
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