ANN: PyStream - a C++ stream emulation

[Andrew Kuchling]

"Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> writes:
> In some cases, such as operator +=, this may not be practicable.  But
> when it IS, as in the 'print >> outputfile' blotch (which, as the PEP
> itself recognized, is functionality that could perfectly well be added
> with a library function rather than by extending language syntax), the
> 'gratuitous' core-language additions are _particularly_ irksome...

Agreed; there is a small (but apparently growing) number of people
unhappy with the unprecedented slew of added features to 2.0.  I'm
particularly irked by weird special cases, like the .setdefault(key,
default_value) method of dictionaries that was recently added.

--amk