ah the only thing i miss in py2 very sad and it was a well heralded arg in favour of py
print "i miss you simple print" Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer, Mauritius abdurrahmaanjanhangeer.wordpress.com On 17 Sep 2017 17:50, "Tim Golden" <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > > On 17/09/2017 14:34, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 2:16:48 PM UTC+1, bartc wrote: >> >>> >>> print can also be used for debugging, when it might be written, deleted >>> and added again hundreds of times. So writing all those brackets becomes >>> irksome. 'print' needs to be easy to write. >>> >>> -- >>> bartc >>> >> >> Experienced Python programmers use the logging module for debugging, >> write once, delete (maybe) never. >> > > FWIW I'm with Bart on this one. Print-as-a-function removed one small > simplicity which I appreciated in Python as I first encountered it. And I'm > entirely unconvinced that the benefit is worth it. That was my view when > Python 3 was launched and several years of happily using Python 3 have not > made a difference to my opinion on this particular point: I simply grin and > bear it. > > Funnily enough, the two arguments most often advanced for > print-as-function seem to me to cancel each other out. Argument 1 is "this > way you can redefine print to be, eg, write_to_this_log"; and Argument 2 is > "but no-one uses print in real code anyway" -- more or less what Mark > offered just now. > > Well if no-one uses it in real code, then its ability to be redefined is > moot. (Or, rather, the strength of that argument is diminished). > > In my own code I'm obviously quite capable of defining a function p() > which does whatever I want in terms of printing etc. But where this bites > me the most is in the interactive interpreter. Yes, I'm aware I can add > things to site.py etc. etc. My point would still be that I'm working around > a change which appears to be solving a problem I didn't have! > > TJG > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list