Again: Please hear my plea: print without softspace

[Paul Rubin]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> writes:
> > If a '+' is problematic, it could be some other character. If I use
> > a print statement in a Python program, from my viewpoint, a trailing
> > comma signals suppression of newline and adding a space. In this
> > scenario, a trailing <insert acceptable character here> would
> > suppress the newline but not add a space. There's not much
> > difference there.
> 
> The problem is that checking my keyboard, there exists exactly three
> characters without syntactical meanings in Python 2.3; @, $, ?.  None
> of them make /any/ sort of syntactical sense to me in this context. I
> hope that Guido feels the same way.

How about two trailing commas: 

   print foo

now prints foo with a trailing newline.

   print foo,

suppresses the trailing newline but adds a trailing space.

   print foo,,

can suppress the trailing space as well.