[Python-Dev] py3k: print function treats sep=None and end=None in an unintuitive way
Can anybody please point me why print('a', 'b', sep=None, end=None) should
produce "a b\n" instead of "ab"?
I've read http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/functions.html#print, pep-3105
and some
ml threads but did not find a good reason justifying such a strange behaviour.
Thanks.
-Alessandro Guido
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Re: [Python-Dev] py3k: print function treats sep=N one and end=None in an unintuitive way
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> So that print(a, b) does the right thing (i.e. matches the Python 2.x
> print statement's behaviour)
AFAICS print(a, b) does the right thing because default values of "sep" and
"end" are ' ' and '\n' respectively, doesn't it?
Eric Smith wrote:
> Because None means 'use the default value'. You probably want:
> print('a', 'b', sep='', end='')
I think this is a "not optimally designed" API
because you have to read the documentation to understand why
print('a', 'b', sep=None, end=None)
does not translate into the obvious:
«print strings 'a' and 'b' using no separator and no terminator»
but into:
«print strings 'a' and 'b' using the default separator and the default
terminator»
However i'll just cope with it, Python is still the best language ;)
Thank you all for replying!
-Alessandro Guido
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[Python-Dev] py3k: print function treats sep=None and end=None in an unintuitive way
Can anybody please point me why print('a', 'b', sep=None, end=None) should
produce "a b\n" instead of "ab"?
I've read http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/functions.html#print, pep-3105
and some
ml threads but did not find a good reason justifying such a strange behaviour.
Thanks.
-Alessandro Guido
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