[Python-Dev] [PEP 214] FW: sys.stndout syntax

[Tim Peters]

>     TP> For those of you who stopped reading comp.lang.python, note
>     TP> that this is *typical* of the advice users get in the absence
>     TP> of syntactic "print" sugar.

[Barry]
> Which is of course broken, if say, you print an object that has a
> str() that raises an exception.

Yes, and if you follow that thread on c.l.py, you'll find that it's also
typical for the suggestions to get more and more convoluted (for that and
other reasons).