On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:30:23 -0400, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.linux.com/feature/150399
Interesting article with one minor incompleteness.
"For instance, the print statement got turned into a print function; you
must now put parentheses around what you want to print to the screen. The
change allows developers to work with print in a more flexible and uniform
way. If someone needs to replace the print function with some other action,
it can be done with a universal search and replace, rather than rewriting
each print statement by hand."
Even easier, print as a function can be replaced simply by defining a new
version with the same name. No search/replace is needed. And reversion to
the built-in only requires commenting out the replacement.
Perhaps it also omitted the fact that nothing prevents you from defining a
function to write things to stdout (or elsewhere) in Python 2.5, making the
Python 3.x change largely a non-feature. ;)
Jean-Paul
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