[Python-ideas] ProtoPEP: A Standardized Marker for Mirroring the TTY to Other Devices

[Andrew Barnert]

In AppleScript, "print" is part of the Standard Suite of methods that every object is supposed to handle, and it actually means "print".

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On Apr 1, 2013, at 12:11, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The history of computing offers a progression of text I/O devices,
>> most notably the Teletype machine [1].  This device had such an impact
>> that we still identify our terminals by "TTY".  Presently the terminal
>> text I/O in Python is facilitated through sys.stdin/stdout/stderr.
>> This is a proposal to facilitate mirroring the data passing across
>> these three objects to another device on the system such as a printer.
>> The API to the do so would be through a new builtins special name:
>> __mifflin__.
> 
> This would vastly improve the grokkability of Python. Currently, the
> most fundamental operation in programming is sadly misnamed:
> 
> print("Hello, world!")
> 
> When this PEP is accepted, as it most surely should be, the print
> function will actually send content to a printer. I have seen a number
> of people[1] extremely confused and even put off programming by the
> way in which the "print" command does not print, just as in REXX the
> "say" command does not produce sound. Finally this terrible lack will
> be cured, once and for all.
> 
> [1] The fine print down the bottom reminds you that zero is a number.
> 
> ChrisA
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