On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:01:50 +0000, Frans Englich wrote: > > Nah, I don't think it's a function, but rather a builtin "statement". But > it's possible to invoke it as an function; print( "test" ) works fine. > > So I wonder, what _is_ exactly the print statement? The untraditional > way of invoking it(without paranteses) makes me wonder. > > The reason I thinks about this is I need to implement a debug print for > my program; very simple, a function/print statement that conditionally > prints its message whether a bool is true. Not overly complex. > > I tried this by overshadowing the print keyword, but that obviously > didn't work.. Is defining a two-liner function the right way to go, or > is there better ways to approach it? > > > Cheers, > > Frans
Unfortunately, it isnt possible to add new kinds of statements to python. you might want to have a look at Ruby, in which paren are entirely optional. Ruby is similar to python in a lot of ways, but its also quite different. It provides lots of syntactic sugar and a superior object model, but its a resource hog compared to python. You may also be interested in Logix. Logix is a language framework built on top of python that allows you to dynamically extend python syntax at run-time. Unfortunately, Logix is still rather new, and its incredibly slow. http://logix.livelogix.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
