[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Michael Hoffman hoffman at ebi.ac.uk
Fri Sep 2 12:02:52 CEST 2005


On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jack Diederich wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:12:57PM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> yeah, real programmers don't generate output.
>>
> I'd say:
>  yeah, real programmers don't generate output _to stdout_
>
> sockets, GUI widgets, buffers? sure.  stdout?  Almost never.

Almost every program I write produces its output mainly to stdout. And
I probably use print half the time to produce this output (the rest is
done mostly with csv).

GUI widgets? Who needs 'em?
-- 
Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute



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