On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:00:53 +0000 Mark Bourne <nntp.mbou...@spamgourmet.com> wrote: >Greg Ewing wrote: >> On 30/01/23 10:41 pm, mutt...@dastardlyhq.com wrote: >>> What was the point of the upheaval of converting >>> the print command in python 2 into a function in python 3 if as a >>> function >>> print() doesn't return anything useful? >> >> It was made a function because there's no good reason for it >> to have special syntax in the language. > >I think I saw somewhere that making print a function also had something >to do with being able to add extra keyword arguments like sep and end. >The syntax for printing to a specific file already seemed a bit odd with >the print statement, and adding extra arguments would have made it even >more clunky (yeah, I know ">>" is similar to C++ streams, but it looks >out of place in Python).
Why couldn't they just keep "print" and call the function , oh I dunno, "printf" ? :) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
