On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:45:30 +0800
Xuancong Wang
Hi python developers,
I notice that one major change in python 3 is that it makes 'print' as a standard function, and it will require typing (). I do understand that it makes python language more consistent because most of the python functionalities are implemented as function calls.
As you know, reading from and writing to IO is a high frequency operation. By entropy coding theorem (e.g. Huffman coding), an efficient language should assign shorter language code to more frequent tasks. Typing a '(' requires holding SHIFT and pressing 9, the input effort is much higher than that in Python 2. Also, specifying IO has changed from >>* to file=*, which also becomes more inconvenient.
As a reminder, having to hold SHIFT to enter a parenthesis depends on your keyboard layout. Not everyone uses an American keyboard. Regards Antoine.