I strongly dislike Python 3

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 11:42:27 EDT 2010


On Jun 30, 2:52 pm, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/27/10 11:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> >> > Producing print function takes a little bit more effort than producing a
> >> > print statement.
>
> > (1) The main use-cases for print are quick (and usually dirty) scripts,
> > interactive use, and as a debugging aid.
>
> That is precisely how the quick-and-dirty syntax of print statement can
> be justified. While debugging, you'll need to be able to quickly add and
> delete prints here and there, and the extra parens can quickly become
> irritating.

Actually when debugging I use pdb which uses "p" (no parens) for
printing, so having
print or print() would not make any difference for me.



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