[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Sep 2 14:03:22 CEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 00:40, Martin Blais wrote:

> Talking about cleanliness, I'm not sure which is cleaner::
> 
>   print >> sys.stderr, "This is a long sentence that I " \
>         "had to cut in two."
> 
>   print("This is a long sentence that I "
>         "had to cut in two.", stream=sys.stderr)
> 
> Sometimes I'll do this because I don't like the backslashes::
> 
>   print >> sys.stderr, ("This is a long sentence that "
>                         "Had to cut in two.")

Or maybe

print >> sys.stderr, "\
This is a long sentence that I didn't have to cut in two."

A bit yucky, but easily extended to TQS when your message gets longer
and longer.

-Barry

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