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print chevron in python2 is super awesome print 'hello' f = open(file, 'w') print>>f, 'world' It just feels more "powerful" than Py3k's print

• nhumrich 9y ago
  > More powerful But less obvious and readable, which is anti pythonic. If you want "power" over readability, there is ruby/perl.
  • masklinn 9y ago
    Note that they say it feels more powerful, it's not like it is more powerful than the file kwarg.
  • wruza 9y ago
    I'm not going to discuss perl readability, but the fact is that I cannot simply 0%% to beginning of the block in "readable" python. ?:$<CR> does its job though.
• masklinn 9y ago
  > print chevron in python2 is super awesome Print chevron is super awful, it's unreadable, hard to remember and difficult to search for. The print function was a welcome improvement: it's not a statement (so can be used in a lambda, no need to fall back to sys.stdout.write), it doesn't use weird-ass syntax to redirect or suppress the final newline and it's more extensible (e.g. "end" or "flush" kwargs would have been… challenging to add to the keyword version)
• RodericDay 9y ago
  If you want power you can fprint = lambda string: print(string, file=somefile) and use fprint all over the place that little chevron trick is bad imo
• majewsky 9y ago
  You'd like Perl: open my $file, '>', 'hello'; print{$file} "Hello";