Of course ipython has a %autocall magic which, if set to 1: Lets you type `print 42, 43, 46, sep='-'` and have it work. Shows you the actual call so you can paste it If you use the %save magic to output to a file saves the actual call, (with parenthesis). You can set this as your preference. There are other benefits as well. So I would suggest simply pip install ipython and type one extra letter when starting your python REPL. Steve Barnes -----Original Message----- From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> Sent: 11 June 2020 07:51 To: python-ideas@python.org Subject: [Python-ideas] Re: Bringing the print statement back I seem to remember reading somewhere that some very early Lisp systems had a REPL that allowed you to omit the parentheses around a top-level call. But that feature seems to have sunk without trace in the swamps of history. I can't see a good reason for Python to refloat it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/T7OJHU... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/