On 2010-06-28, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Edward A. Falk <f...@green.rahul.net> wrote: >> In article <mailman.2270.1277736664.32709.python-l...@python.org>, >> Stephen Hansen ?<me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> 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",) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Those people look at exactly like Donnie and gmail.com Marie Osmond!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list