I strongly dislike Python 3

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Mon Jun 28 10:35:59 EDT 2010


On 2010-06-28, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Edward A. Falk, 28.06.2010 16:15:
>> In article<mailman.2146.1277570052.32709.python-list at python.org>,
>> Thomas Jollans wrote:
>>
>>> There is no reason for print not being a function. Also, do you use
>>> print *that* much? Really?
>>
>> I use it all the time.  Who doesn't?  What do you use instead?
>
> Usually file.write() or log.info() and friends. Since you can't really 
> control the encoding used by print(), nor redirect it locally, it's mostly 
> useless for anything but debugging and small scripts.

Maybe it's just me, but I find both debugging and small scripts to be
very useful.

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