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I don't think I follow the stderr comment. Isn't it just:

Perl

    print STDERR "foo"

Python

    print(file=sys.stderr, "foo")

Those look fairly similar. I prefer that print() is obviously a function call and file is a named parameter so the purpose is clear.

Well in Perl there is...

warn("foo")

In Python you have to at least:

- remember not to forget to import sys - remember the file= syntax for the print statement - type about 10 extra characters

Bunch of annoying stuff when you are hurriedly debugging something...

The file=sys.stderr came with Python 3. Because of that, I tend to see sys.stderr.write("foo\n") more often.

Python 2 was even more terse with it's print statement

    print >>sys.stderr, "foo"