[Python-Dev] extended print statement, uPre-PEP

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 12:47:32AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> I've long wanted to make the print statement able to handle
> alternative output files in a more convenient syntax.  Yes you can
> rebind sys.stdout, but that is often very clumsy to get right in the
> face of exceptions.

>     print @ sys.stderr, 'hello'

No offense, but I'd rather deprecate 'print' than see this. For me,
'print' is for debugging purposes only (and possibly very teensy scripts.)

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