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I understand this, but couldn't you simply wrap print itself in a function, and do that in Python 2.7 already? Granted, your method saves you one line and it's

• falcolas 13y ago
  Not really, since the Python 2 version is a keyword, and not a function, you can't simply provide keyword arguments to it. You would instead have to build up a string and eval it. It would have to be something like this (completely untested): def print_wrapper(*args, **kwargs) outfile = None print_stmt = "print " if 'file' in kwargs: outfile = open(kwargs['file'], 'a') print_stmt += '>>outfile ' print_stmt += ", ".join(*args) if 'end' in kwargs and kwargs['end'] == ' ': print_stmt += ',' eval(print_stmt) if outfile is not None: outfile.close() sep and other end values for anything other than ' ' would not be possible. http://docs.python.org/2.6/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-print-statement http://docs.python.org/2.6/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-p...