[Python-Dev] PEP 259: Omit printing newline after newline

[Alex Martelli]

"Brian E Gallew" <geek+ at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
news:200106121320.f5CDKCvM032104 at smtp5.andrew.cmu.edu...
    ...
> I really like Alex's output() (or whatever you want to call it)
> function and would use it in a heartbeat.  I would also be much more
> interested in being able to supply a keyword argument to readlines()
> that would have it strip the EOL character(s).

An interesting idea would be (yeah, yeah, I know -- my name
is Alex, and I am an overgeneralizer) to have a named parameter
ln uniformly accepted by all functions and methods dealing
with lines.  Default would be ln=1 for functions & methods
that now respect/don't add newlines (readline, readlines,
write, writelines, xreadlines, ...), ln=0 for those that
now generally add/remove newlines (print -- or rather its
function-equivalent -- say 'output', raw_input).  Being
"everywhere" would make it easy indeed to teach to newbies.

Being a keyword argument would make life easy for advanced
users, as suggested in my last post, i.e. rather than
    if somecondition():
        print blah, bloh,
    else:
        print blah, bloh
or
    print blah, bloh,
    if somecondition():
        print
just
    output(blah, bloh, ln=
        somecondition())
...


Akex