[Python-Dev] py3k: print function treats sep=None and end=None in an unintuitive way

Tue Apr 8 18:01:15 CEST 2008

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> So that print(a, b) does the right thing (i.e. matches the Python 2.x 
> print statement's behaviour)

AFAICS print(a, b) does the right thing because default values of "sep" and
"end" are ' ' and '\n' respectively, doesn't it?
Eric Smith wrote:
> Because None means 'use the default value'. You probably want:
> print('a', 'b', sep='', end='')

I think this is a "not optimally designed" API
because you have to read the documentation to understand why
print('a', 'b', sep=None, end=None)
does not translate into the obvious:
«print strings 'a' and 'b' using no separator and no terminator»
but into:
«print strings 'a' and 'b' using the default separator and the default terminator»
However i'll just cope with it, Python is still the best language ;)
Thank you all for replying!
	-Alessandro Guido