It has been proposed to replace the current print statement with a print function for python 3.0. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/
>From BDFL state of the python union: " print x, y, x becomes print(x, y, z) print >>f, x, y, z becomes print(x, y, z, file=f) " -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list