Python News  Print Changes Survive Criticism   The
comp.lang.python newsgroup erupted last week with a flurry of
posts that accused the Python development team of creeping
featurism, selling out the language to corporate interests,
moving too fast, and turning a deaf ear to the Python community.
What triggered this lava flow of accusations? The development
team accepted a proposal to change the syntax of the print
statement.  The print statement is a very intuitive feature in
Python and a good example of how Python is easy to learn. If you
want to print something to the screen, you can just put what you
want after the print command. Want to print several somethings?
Separate them with commas. It's clear. It makes sense.
Unfortunately it only prints to standard out, or more
accurately, the sys.stdout file handle. "Standard out" is one of
three common system file handles used to communicate with a
text-based console, like the DOS or Unix prompt. Both standard
out and standard error (used for reporting errors) p