On 2007-08-06, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-08-06, Paul Rubin <http> wrote: >> Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> For instance, if you never use print statements in your code, >>> you won't notice that print is becoming a function. If you >>> do, you'll have to make appropriate accommodations. >> >> Why on earth did they make this change? It just seems >> gratuitous. Is the assert statement also being changed? Are >> they going to update all the docs that say that the yield >> statement works like the print statement? > > From the footnotes of PEP 3100: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056154.html > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105
Incidentally, from the second link I find it shocking that the keyword parameter "file" shadows a builtin. It seems to endorse a bad practice. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
