Misleading wikipedia article on Python 3?

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Mon Aug 6 08:07:45 EDT 2007


On 6 Aug, 12:11, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> writes:
> > For instance, if you never use print statements in your code, you won't
> > notice that print is becoming a function. If you do, you'll have to make
> > appropriate accommodations.
>
> Why on earth did they make this change?  It just seems gratuitous.  Is
> the assert statement also being changed?  Are they going to update all
> the docs that say that the yield statement works like the print statement?

Indeed: practicality beats purity [1]. Uh, wait a moment!

Paul

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/culture/




More information about the Python-list mailing list