On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> did *not* write > [it was edited/abbreviated by me - S. R.]: > |disadvantages: > |0 - it makes print a special thing > |1 - beginners have to unlearn > |2 - `print(x, y)` is *not* the same as `print x, y`; > |3 - it has bizarre syntax that nobody would find normal > |4 - you can't pass keyword arguments > |5 - it can't be mocked, shadowed, monkey-patched or replaced for testing; > |6 - and you can't even write help(print) in the interactive interpreter > > But a simple "autocorrect" features that adds missing > parentheses when the case is clear and obvious would not > suffer from most of those drawbacks, except maybe from #2.
Such a feature is also useful for other functions - nothing special about print there. And you can go way further; I've seen people with their editors configured so that typing "def" prepopulates an entire function skeleton, complete with a docstring template. That's an editor feature that can save you typing; but the *code* still has all the parentheses in it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
