On Jun 30, 2:52 pm, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/27/10 11:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >> > Producing print function takes a little bit more effort than producing a > >> > print statement. > > > (1) The main use-cases for print are quick (and usually dirty) scripts, > > interactive use, and as a debugging aid. > > That is precisely how the quick-and-dirty syntax of print statement can > be justified. While debugging, you'll need to be able to quickly add and > delete prints here and there, and the extra parens can quickly become > irritating.
Actually when debugging I use pdb which uses "p" (no parens) for printing, so having print or print() would not make any difference for me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
