On 9/5/05, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eliminating the newline argument from print() would reduce the number of
> reserved keyword arguments in my strawman by half. Maybe we could even
> rename 'to' to '__to__' (!) to eliminate the other namespace wart. Is
> this really too horrible:
>
> print('$user forgot to frobnicate the $file!\n',
> user=username, file=file.name, __to__=sys.stderr)
Yes, it is too horrible. As I said in another post, __xyzzy__ screams
"special internal use, don't mess with this".
I don't think the namespace wart is really a problem though; it's
simple enough *not* to use 'to' as a variable name in the format.
Didn't you mean printf()? (Though I think if the format string doesn't
roughly follow C's format string conventions the function shouldn't be
called printf().)
What do you think of the trick (that I wasn't aware of before) used in
Java and .net of putting an optional position specifier in the format,
and using positional arguments? It would be a little less verbose and
with sensible defaults wouldn't quite punish everybody as much for the
needs of i18n. Formats with more than 3 or 4 variables should be rare
in any case (these are not the days of Fortran formatted output).
--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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