Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The patch looks okay, but I just thought of something -- why not make
> sys.stdout and friends be undefined (i.e. NULL) instead of setting them
> to None?  That way this patch isn't necessary and you only need one
> small change to builtin_print() -- which you need anyway (Try deleting
> sys.stdout and then printing something.)

I prefer "if sys.stdout is None" over "if hasattr(sys, 'stdout'):" and
"sys.stdout = None" over "del sys.stdout". I can't put words to it but
it feels more natural to set the stream to None (NULL) than to
incinerate the stream.

IMO the problem warrants a short poll at Python 3000 dev.

Christian