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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:27:16 -0500
Subject: Re: Practice question
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> So pushing beginners away from print can push them up the learning
> curve more quickly

Or more quickly discourage them. I still use print for all sorts of
things. In my opinion, there is often no need for fancy loggers,
str.format, or the write method of file-like objects. Print will often
get you a "good enough" result faster than the other means.

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