gratuitous new features in 2.0

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Niels Diepeveen <niels at endea.demon.nl> (ND) writes:

ND> I would much prefer making redirecting output from the print statement
ND> easier by separating it from sys.stdout. Why not provide a function
ND> sys.printto() [or possibly __builtin__.printto()] that will redirect
ND> output from the print statement, but does not change sys.stdout?

ND> def printto(file=None):
ND>     global _print_file
ND>     _print_file = file

Globals are bad. Think about the consequences for threads and exceptions.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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