I strongly dislike Python 3

[Stephen Hansen]

On 6/28/10 7:15 AM, Edward A. Falk wrote:
> In article<mailman.2146.1277570052.32709.python-list at python.org>,
> Thomas Jollans<thomas at jollans.com>  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?

It depends on what my purpose is.

If its debugging output or something similar, I use the logging module 
exclusively (the fine grained control it gives me on just how much 
information, categorized as such, with which modules, is invaluable to 
prevent brain hemorrhage from TMI or confusion from TLI).

Any other use, I basically operate on a file object. I never write to 
stdout directly, but instead to some file object passed into some 
function-- it may very well be stdout, but the code doesn't know that, 
because I half the time I don't have a stdout (or stderr) and half the 
time I do.

I *could* use, say, print >>file_object, "..." in those cases, but I 
sort of hate that construct kind of a lot. So don't. :)

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