what's the big deal for print()

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/24/2011 10:39 PM, pipehappy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why people want print() instead of print str? That's not a big deal
> and the old choice is more natural. Anyone has some clue?

print as a function instead of a statement is consistent with input as a 
function, can be overridden with custom versions, can be passed to 
functions as an argument, and can have options passed as arguments 
instead of with terrible syntax hacks.

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Terry Jan Reedy