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[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Martin Blais martin.blais at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 03:45:57 CEST 2005 
On 9/2/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 11:02 AM 9/3/2005 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >Printing the items in a sequence also becomes straightforward:
> >
> >print " ".join(map(str, range(10))) => output(*range(10))
> >
> >Playing well with generator expressions comes for free, too:
> >
> >print " ".join(str(x*x) for x in range(10))
> >      => output(*(x*x for x in range(10)))
> 
> An implementation issue: that generator expression will get expanded into a
> tuple, so you shouldn't use that for outputting large sequences.

Then how about::

  output(*(x*x for x in range(10)), iter=1)

Where all given iterable parameters are automatically iterated?
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