PEP 214 - Why not print >> string?

[Mark McEahern]

Andrew Koenig:
> So
>         x = ''
>         print >> x, 3
>         print >> x, 3
> 
> would cause x to be '3 3'?  Or would it be '3\n3\n' ?
> 
> What if I forgot to say  x = ''  first?

Or what if you said x = 0 first?

Aaron:
> I'm not sure I see why. It would function similarly to += on strings.
>     print >> string, 'value'
> would be equivalent to:
>     string += 'value'
> (except you'd get the nice print formatting rules).

Maybe what he meant was that:

	print >> string, value

would be equivalent to:

	string = `string` + `value`

// mark