[Python-Dev] Python 3 design principles

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Sep 1 15:11:48 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 05:54, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Oren Tirosh wrote:
> > *  Replacing print with write/writeln
> 
> I still hope to see this change to "make print a builtin instead of a
> statement". I'd hate to lose the one-line hello world example due to cruft
> like "from sys import stdout".

I agree.  You can't get much simpler to explain or use than the current
print statement.

-Barry

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