Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-04 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
James J. Besemer a écrit : > (snip) > > PEP -- EXTEND PRINT TO EXPAND GENERATORS > > NUTSHELL > > I propose that we extend the semantics of "print" such that if the > object to be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the > resulting sequence of sub-objects and recursively prin

Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-04 Thread Terry Reedy
"Mel Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I guess the motivation is the case of people who would set > up an iterator specifically to print from it. for i in gen: print i, print is rather trivial and gives one the option to control formatting however. tjr --

Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-04 Thread Mel Wilson
Terry Reedy wrote: > "James J. Besemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I propose that we extend the semantics of "print" such that if the object >> to >> be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the resulting >> sequence of sub-objects and recursiv

Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-03 Thread Steven Bethard
James J. Besemer wrote: > I propose that we extend the semantics of "print" such that if the > object to be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the > resulting sequence of sub-objects and recursively print each of the > items in order. I don't feel like searching for the specif

Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-03 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James J. Besemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I propose that we extend the semantics of "print" such that if the object to > be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the resulting > sequence of sub-objects and recursively print each of the items

Re: Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-03 Thread Terry Reedy
"James J. Besemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I propose that we extend the semantics of "print" such that if the object > to > be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the resulting > sequence of sub-objects and recursively print each of the item

Proposed new PEP: print to expand generators

2006-06-03 Thread James J. Besemer
I would like to champion a proposed enhancement to Python. I describe the basic idea below, in order to gage community interest. Right now, it's only an idea, and I'm sure there's room for improvement. And of course it's possible there's some serious "gotcha" I've overlooked. Thus I welcome