[Tutor] Making a Primary Number List generator

[Alan Gauld]

On 16/05/13 00:18, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com
> <mailto:marc.tompkins at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I was thinking along the lines of an optional parameter ("verbose"
>     or something similar), so print() would supply a return value if you
>     asked it to but keep stumm if you didn't.
>
>
> After I hit Send, I thought of the obvious problem...  you'd have to
> know ahead of time which version of print() was available, because
> you'll get a TypeError if you pass undefined keyword arguments to print().
>
> On the other hand, it'd be a quickie to do that test at the top of your
> code...

Or maybe we need a printf function in Python that has the C behaviour 
(and takes other arguments, such as output stream?)

As to bytes v characters I'd opt for bytes since in dealing with 
hardware/networks the bytes are more significant than the
characters...


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Alan G
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