Steve D'Aprano schreef op 17/09/2017 20:49:
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:09 am, Tim Chase wrote: So, you don't like the extra parentheses with print. But you don't mind the parentheses in sys.stderr.write (16 chars, versus five for print) or having to manually concatenate the strings and manually add a newline at the end. Because apparently using print and sys.stderr.write is simpler than print with parens.
Actually I think Tim has a point. I did the same in Python 2: use simple easy-to-use `print` for the simple cases, and `sys.stdout.write()` or sometimes `sys.stderr.write()` when simple `print` wasn't enough.
I do prefer Python 3's print-as-a-function because "special cases aren't special enough to break the rules", but I feel there's a case to be made for Python 2's print-as-a-statement because "(although) practicality beats purity" sometimes.
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