I strongly dislike Python 3

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/26/2010 8:02 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  writes:
>> Having completely switched from 'printf(' to 'print ', I have had a
>> bit of a problem switching back to 'print('. It is my single largest
>> source of typos. But a decent system that puts me at the site of
>> syntax errors alleviates this. Logic bugs are a much bigger problem.
>
> I tend to print a lot of tracing messages in my programs, in the form
>
>     print (x, y, z)
>
> expecting to print the tuple (x,y,z) in a form that I can read back
> into an analysis program.  That's going to break without throwing
> any syntax errors if I ever switch to Python 3.

I would hope and expect that 2to3 will properly add a second pair. But I 
can see that that would be a problem with new code. To make your life 
easier, and even save keystrokes:

 >>> print((1,2,3))
(1, 2, 3)
 >>> def tp(*args): print(args) # tuple print

 >>> tp(1,2,3)
(1, 2, 3)

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy