Gary Herron wrote: >>for i in sequence: >> mylist.append(print(i)) >> >> >> > No no, please NO! You *know* that someday you'll want the return value > without actually printing the text. > > So let's don't overload a single function with two operations. Let > "print" print, and propose a separate function (named "format" --yuck-- > or some such) that returns the same text as a string.
Yes! That's really a good idea. But "format" is a bad name. Let's call it "as_string"! Hm, bad too. What about "text"? No, now I know. Let it be called "str". Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
