J. Pic writes:
+1 because print is a debugging tool mostly used in short lived temporary code as such the parenthesis do not matter and do not provide any value.
Sez you. In *my* "business process automation" (I'm a professor), its primary use is for normal output. In debugging such code, I often replace the print function rather than add logger logging. If you want to save keystrokes, an editor macro (which avoids the shift-keystrokes required by parentheses on all keyboard layouts I know of) or "p = print" are probably more effective.
I believe that the parenthesis don't matter in the vast majority of cases where a developer writes a print statement: because they would delete afterwards ie. with git checkout -p or something.
Certainly not true for me.