Implementing file reading in C/Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:33:53 +1000, James Mills wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
> <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> print("Filesize       : %d" % (filesize)) print("Image size     :
>>> %dx%d" % (width, height)) print("Bytes per Pixel: %d" % (blocksize))
>>
>> Why parentheses around ``print``\s "argument"?  In Python <3 ``print``
>> is a statement and not a function.
> 
> Not true as of 2.6+ and 3.0+
> 
> print is now a function.


Not so. print is still a statement in 2.6.

$ python2.6
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 24 2008, 00:33:13)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 
>>> print 23
23





-- 
Steven