Re: Pep 3105: the end of print?

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:44:24 +0000, Peter mayne wrote:

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If Python 3 dropped the print
statement and replaced it with official_print_function(), how would that
help you in your goal to have a single code base that will run on both
Python 2.3 and Python 3, while still using print?
Is there any reason why official_print_function isn't sys.stdout.write?

Why would you want a convenience function like print to take one import,
three look-ups and 16 characters instead of always available, one look-up
and five characters?

Because it's compatible between Python 2.x and Python 3.x? :-)
Because without print as a keyword, I can say "print = sys.stdout.write"
and still have (some) convenience? (Albeit still one import and one
lookup, though given the probable time taken to do the I/O, why worry
about the lookup?) Or, if your editor has an abbreviation facility like
Eclipse, you can type sys.stdout.write with less than 5 keystrokes.

I can't remember the last time I used print in actual code (apart from short-lived debugging lines), so I'm bewildered as to why print seems to be so important.

print is important for the convenience, for short-lived debugging, and for
use in the interactive interpreter.

Why use print in the interactive interpreter? Just type the expression.

Hmm, I was expecting that that wouldn't always work, but:

>>> x=3
>>> if x==3: x
....
3
>>> for i in range(x):
.... i
....
0
1
2

PJDM
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