I strongly dislike Python 3

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-28, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Edward A. Falk <falk at green.rahul.net> wrote:
>> In article <mailman.2270.1277736664.32709.python-list at python.org>,
>> Stephen Hansen ?<me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such
>>>contexts.
>>
>> I was responding to the question "Also, do you use print *that*
>> much? Really?" ?The implication being that in the majority of useful
>> python programs, you don't really need to use print.
>>
>> My answer is yes, I use print in 100% of the scripts I write, including
>> the large useful ones.
>>
>> For this reason alone, python 3 is incompatible with python 2 (which
>> has already been acknowledged.)
>>
>> Until such time as 100% of the systems I might ever want to run my progams
>> on have python 3 installed, I cannot port my programs over from python 2.
>
> Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can
> do that without breaking on 2.x.

I suppose so, for some values of "breaking".  It can change the output:

There is definitely a semantic difference between

   print "asdf",

and    
   print ("asdf",)

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