Let's leave poor writelines alone. It's an old API, if you want something different, there are a zillion other ways (e.g. print(*x, sep="\n") ).
I wonder how much research the OP did before they claimed "writelines is a very big misnomer to many python developers". On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 8:46 AM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2021-07-13 15:11, sandhoners...@gmail.com wrote: > > Maybe (to be consistent with other functions like print), end= since > that would allow even custom line endings > > > I'm not sure about the name 'end'. The 'print' function has 'end', but > it's printed only at the end(!); .writelines would write it after every > line. > _______________________________________________ > 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/2SYIBL275IIHMSPAT6J4K3TIA7HXEKV5/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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