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Thu Sep 1 23:46:20 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056006.html

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 
> > in fact, it does nothing for the program but merely has the interesting
> > side-effect of writing to stdout.
> 
> yeah, real programmers don't generate output.

That wasn't quite my point - I meant that the rest of Python's statements (to
a one) all have a quite fundamental impact on what the code in question means.
`print` doesn't.

I write data filters in Python all the time -- but I virtually never use
`print`.  stdout.write() is more consistent /and/ parallel to stdin.read().
`print` should go away, at least as a statement.  

Charles
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[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0