[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Fri Sep 2 17:12:07 CEST 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> the print statement is more convenient. Maybe a print builtin wouldn't kill
> me. In that case I'd want both output redirection and newline suppression
> though. I guess you'd have to use a keyword arg to specify an alternate
> stream. Perhaps if the last non-keyword argument was exactly one space, the
> newline could be suppressed, e.g.:
>> print("foo", "bar", "baz", " ", stream=sys.stderr)

I think, instead, the stream API should grow a "print" method (or
whatever it ends up getting called). The example would then look
like:
 sys.stderr.print("foo", "bar", "baz", " ")
It would probably be nice to provide a FileMixin object too. 
(Actually, this would be nice now, so that if I implement read(), I
don't have to implement readline(), readlines(), etc.) The FileMixin
object would make it easy for user-defined file-like objects to also
support the print() method:
 class FileMixin(object):
 """Adds the file methods.

 Requires:
 read()
 write()

 Adds:
 __iter__()
 next()
 readline()
 readlines()
 writelines()
 print() # or whatever it gets called
 """
 ...
STeVe
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