Meyer, Tony wrote: > "print" is the best example I can think of for "practicality beats purity". > > Writing to stdout is as common in the code I write as loops - it's worth > keeping such basic functionality as elegant, simple, easy to understand, > and easy to use as possible.
If writing to stdout easily were the only goal, it could be achieved by making stdout a builtin and using stdout.write(...). -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
