On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I don't really understand what the reason for having the information > is. Would it return the number of characters written or the number of > bytes? > It's absolutely useless in an interactive session, or any time that print() is printing to the screen and the user can see it happening. But when you're printing to some other device - a disk file, a printer, a serial port - it can be EXTREMELY handy to know 1) did it succeed or not and 2) if it failed, how far did it get before it failed? As for characters or bytes, that would depend on whether you were working in ASCII or Unicode, I suppose...
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