Old Man Yells At Cloud
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Thu Sep 21 13:07:22 EDT 2017
On 21/09/17 17:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> For a good while, I was in the same position. But instead of massively
> rewriting everything, all I did was to adjust the material to use
> Py2/Py3 compatible syntax. Adding parens around your print calls won't
> stop it from being Py2-compatible, and it means that the shift to Py3
> becomes a lot easier.
It's compatible syntax, but it doesn't half look weird in Py2.
>>> x=2
>>> print("x is", x)
('x is', 2)
>>>
is very unfriendly to young beginners. We did consider it, but decided
it was a non-starter; it was less effort to ignore Py3 entirely.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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