PEP 214 - Why not print >> string?
Aahz Maruch
aahz at panix.com
Fri Jan 11 10:05:09 EST 2002
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In article <B8631E26.17D53%me at aaronsw.com>,
Aaron Swartz <me at aaronsw.com> wrote:
>
>It seems to me that this and other similar functions would be more
>appropriate returning strings, so that their values can be used in other
>ways and combined into expressions like len(tables(1)). (Yet still easily
>written to a file as: "print >> file, tables(val)".) Of course, one can
>always use a StringIO object, but this feels rather kludgey.
Why does using a [c]StringIO object feel kludgy? After all, your
proposal already requires x='' and using a "normal" file requires an
open(), so what's wrong with x=StringIO()?
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