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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2000-08-21 15:45:16 (GMT)
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PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the markup!
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\withsubitem{(in module sys)}{\ttindex{stdout}}
\exindex{RuntimeError}
+\keyword{print} also has an extended form, defined as
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+print_stmt: '>>' expression [ (',' expression)+ [','] ] )
+\end{verbatim}
+
+In this form, the first expression after the \keyword{>>} must
+evaluate to a ``file-like'' object, specifically an object that has a
+\method{write()} method as described above. With the extended form,
+the subsequent expressions are printed to this file-like object
+instead of \code{sys.stdout}.
+
\section{The \keyword{return} statement \label{return}}
\stindex{return}