> What's so special about print? It's just a function. I'd argue it's a pretty special function given its history. Just because it's used less frequently that something else doesn't mean it's not "special" in some sense. `iter x` never worked, whereas `print x` used to work, which is the only reason I'm giving it special status.
Regardless, I'd rather not have this feature. As you said it's not 100% backwards compatible, so the usefulness is limited. On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:49 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:00:26PM -0400, Jonathan Crall wrote: > > I wouldn't mind if this *only *worked for the specific characters > "print". > > I would. What's so special about print? It's just a function. > > I use `iter` much more than print. Should we make a special exception > for only 'iter' too? Or instead? > > `print` is especially problematic, because zero-argument form of print > is possible. This makes it a landmine waiting for the unwary: > > print x, y, z # works > print x # works > # now print a blank line > print # silent failure > > > That's especially going to burn people who remember Python 2, where it > did print a blank line instead of evaluating to the `print` object. > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ICVRZKRAPKRCNY7BTMQY7GRYV37ADQRA/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- -Dr. Jon Crall (him)
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