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Re: Shell script or Perl?



On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:37:36 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> I have to say that I can never remember whether Python's print includes
> a trailing newline, and I find it much more obvious when that's spelt
> out explicitly as it is in Perl ...
 
> Language features can be idioms too. :)

    I don't call that a feature.  That's one of the few Pythonisms I consider
a bug.  It's a holdout from the Pascal days of Write and WriteLn.  

    For the record, it does unless there is a trailing comma.  

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