On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:08:18 +1000, Steve D'Aprano > <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following: > >>For what its worth: from Python 3.5 (I think) onwards the error you get is >>customized: >> >>py> print 1 >> File "<stdin>", line 1 >> print 1 >> ^ >>SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' >> > > So... "print" (the function") is still a special case for the > interpreter...
Yes, because of all the people migrating from Python 2. If print had never been a statement, this special case wouldn't have been needed. And it's only a special case in the handling of one specific exception - at the point where you would otherwise get a generic error, it checks to see if it could possibly be a Py2 print statement, and if so, adjusts the text of the exception. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
