On 11/06/2020 16:45, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:00:26PM -0400, Jonathan Crall wrote:
I wouldn't mind if this *only *worked for the specific characters "print". I would. What's so special about print? It's just a function.
I use `iter` much more than print. Should we make a special exception for only 'iter' too? Or instead?
`print` is especially problematic, because zero-argument form of print is possible. This makes it a landmine waiting for the unwary:
print x, y, z # works print x # works # now print a blank line print # silent failure
That's especially going to burn people who remember Python 2, where it did print a blank line instead of evaluating to the `print` object.
No problem! If the new super-duper all-singing-and-dancing-and-make-the-tea parser can cope with 'print' without parens, it can cope with print followed by nothing. Good addition to the proposal, actually. :-) (Repeated for clarity: I'm in favour of the proposition for 'print' only.)