On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Erick Tryzelaar <idadesub@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
instead of:
print('first line', file=sys.stderr) print('another line here', file=sys.stderr) print('and again', file=sys.stderr)
Perhaps it would help if there were a function fprint(f, *args): print(file = f, *args) then the above could be written fprint(sys.stderr, 'first line') fprint(sys.stderr, 'another line here') fprint(sys.stderr, 'and again') which to me is a lot easier to read, since the file argument is in a consistent place, making it easier to see that it's the same from one line to the next. Also, it enables making the file argument very abbreviated, e.g. f = sys.stdout fprint(f, 'first line') fprint(f, 'another line here') fprint(f, 'and again') Otherwise, the shortest you can get it down to is 'file=f', which is 6 times as long. It might not seem much, but that's 5 less characters of print arguments that you can fit in without having to split the line. -- Greg