[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 07:54:57 CEST 2005


Bill Janssen wrote:
> I think what Nick really is asking for is a better print statement --
> and there's no particularly good reason to move to a function to
> attain that end.

Well one reason (you can judge for yourself whether it's "good" or
not) is that adding more syntax to the print statement will make
Python's parser more complex, while converting the print statement to
a function should make Python's parser simpler.

STeVe
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