[Python-ideas] A suggestion for Python 3 vs Python 2

[Barry Warsaw]

On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>It's far more common in utility scripts (such as those written by
>system administrators) than it is in applications. The print change
>between Python 2 and 3 is one that doesn't really affect application
>developers all that much in practice (other than when trying things
>out in the REPL, and apparently not even then if using IPython), but
>can be more of an issue with those writing scripts where the standard
>streams are the primary IO mechanism.
>
>We tend not to hear from the latter group as much as we do from
>application developers, though.

Oh yeah, another beautiful thing about the print function:

    >>> from functools import partial
    >>> import sys
    >>> perr = partial(print, file=sys.stderr)
    >>> perr('you hit a bug')

Cheers,
-Barry
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