On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 00:53, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM, <s...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> >> Since print is now a builtin function why is there still a PRINT_EXPR >> >> opcode? >> >> Benjamin> I believe it's used in the interactive interpreter to display >> Benjamin> the repr of an expression. >> >> Wouldn't it make more sense for the interactive interpreter to call >> >> print(repr(expr)) > > I'm not sure about the reasoning for keeping PRINT_EXPR alive. When I > look at the code of PyRun_InteractiveOne, it seems it should be > possible to kill it off.
How would you display multiple lines, like: >>> for x in range(3): ... x, x * x ... (0, 0) (1, 1) (2, 4) >>> if 1: ... "some line" ... "another line" ... 'some line' 'another line' OTOH this seems an obscure feature. "for" and "if" are statements after all. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ 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
