. Python 2.1 function attributes

[Jeff Petkau]

Jeff Petkau <jpet at eskimo.com> wrote in message
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> Barry A. Warsaw <barry at digicool.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >     JD> Perhaps if "print >> file, something" were written as "print
> >     JD> to file, something" there wouldn't be so much controversy over
> >     JD> it, even though it wouldn't be doing more or less than it does
> >     JD> today.
> >
> > We tried it.  Using an identifier in that spot caused irreconcilable
> > syntactic ambiguities, so we had to pick a non-identifier.  After
> > extensive market research <wink> `>>' was picked because it had the
>
> The following seems to work fine for 'print to', even if you insist
> on naming your variables 'to'.
>
> In Grammar/Grammar
>     print_stmt: 'print' test [test] [',' test]+ [',']
>
> In compile.c:
>     <some stuff>

Sorry, the evil genie of 1:30am postings got hold of my message.
That should have been,

print_stmt: 'print' [ test [test] [ ( ',' test)* [ ',' ] ] ]

--Jeff