On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 22:21, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> And C's printf() returns the number of chars printed.
> >> I actually wish python had followed suit because, as Marc says,
> >> it can occasionally be useful...
> >>
> >
> > I wonder if this would be a good PEP suggestion? Unlike the switch from
> > print to print(), I think this could be done in a future-proof way...
> >
>
> It would be a bit confusing in an interactive session:
>
> >>> def print_(data):
> ... print(data)
> ... return len(data)
> ...
> >>> print_('asd')
> asd
> 3
>
>
I was thinking along the lines of an optional parameter ("verbose" or
something similar), so print() would supply a return value if you asked it
to but keep stumm if you didn't.
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