On 2010-06-28, geremy condra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Edward A. Falk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Stephen Hansen ?<me+list/[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such
>>>contexts.
>>
>> I was responding to the question "Also, do you use print *that*
>> much? Really?" ?The implication being that in the majority of useful
>> python programs, you don't really need to use print.
>>
>> My answer is yes, I use print in 100% of the scripts I write, including
>> the large useful ones.
>>
>> For this reason alone, python 3 is incompatible with python 2 (which
>> has already been acknowledged.)
>>
>> Until such time as 100% of the systems I might ever want to run my progams
>> on have python 3 installed, I cannot port my programs over from python 2.
>
> Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can
> do that without breaking on 2.x.
I suppose so, for some values of "breaking". It can change the output:
There is definitely a semantic difference between
print "asdf",
and
print ("asdf",)
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