Paul Moore wrote: > On 9/2/05, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Jim Jewett wrote: >> >>>Putting the spaces back in (without a format string) would >>>be even worse. Charles Cazabon's pointed out that it *could* >>>be as simple as >>> >>> writeln(' '.join( ... )) >> >>Why not just offer an addition method ? >> >>examine(x,y,z) # print with spaces > > > Because we're now up to *four* stream methods, plus the same number of > builtins, to do what one statement currently does?
I'm not sure having one statement that can do several things with multiple syntax's is better than having multiple methods each with a single syntax. How is this different than having two methods in the case of partition() and rpartiion(). Ron _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com