Re: functions versus statements (from WIKI)

Mark Hahn <[email protected]>:

> I know Guido wants Python print to change to a function and this is
> the current "in thing" to do. I have some vague idea one may want to
> print in a list comprehension but I doubt I'd ever do that.

Guido means it shouldn't be a special statement, not that
it should return a value. If Python ever gets a print-function,
I'm pretty sure it will return None.

> Note: Since this was written I removed the return values from the print
> function to fix the double prints.  This is not necessarily a long-term
> solution.

Why not? It seems perfectly sensible to me.

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