Thanks for bringing this up again. I think it should be called sys.displayhook.
That should be the easy part -- I'll do it as soon as I'm home.
The default could be something like
import __builtin__ import sys # Sorry, I couldn't resist def displayhook(obj): if obj is None: return __builtin__._ = obj sys.stdout.write("%s\n" % repr(obj))
This brings up a painful point -- the reason I haven't wrote the default is because it was way much easier to write it in Python. Of course, I shouldn't be preaching Python-is-easier-to-write-then-C here, but it pains me Python cannot be written with more Python and less C. A while ago we started talking about the mini-interpreter idea, which would then freeze Python code into itself, and then it sort of died out. What have become of it? -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com