[Tutor] Python printing parentheses and quotes

[Sai Allu]

Actually I'm pretty sure what happened was that the "#! usr/bin/python" was in a module that was being imported. So the Python interpreter cached it or somehow crashed randomly, which meant that the print was working as a keyword instead of a function.

But when I removed that "#! usr/bin/python" line and then rewrote the print statements, it went back to working normally.

Thank you for the help though!
Sai Allu
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From: Sai Allu
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 11:53 AM
To: Mats Wichmann; tutor at python.org; Deepak Dixit
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python printing parentheses and quotes

But then how come it was working earlier for me without that import statement. Python doesn't interpret it as a statement exclusively, before it worked fine as a function.

Best Wishes,
Sai Allu
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From: Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 11:12 AM
To: Sai Allu; tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python printing parentheses and quotes

On 6/10/19 10:50 AM, Sai Allu wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was just wondering if anybody encountered an issue where the Python interpreter was changing how it interprets print statements. So I'm using default Python on Mac OSX (2.7.10 I'm pretty sure) and running with the "python script.py" command.
>
> Basically what happened was that I had a few lines in the script like this
> ip = "10.41.17.237"
> print("         Welcome to Squid Monitoring for ", ip)
> print("")
>
> and the output was like this
>
> ("           Welcome to Squid Monitoring for 10.41.17.237")
>
> ("")
>
> So it was printing parentheses and quotes. The above result might not be exactly accurate because I didn't save the output, but it was something generally like that.

In Python 2, print is a statement. In Python 3 it's a function and
behaves like you're expecting.

However, the behavior you're seeing is odd (printing parentheses is a
surprise unless there's more going on than you've listed)

If you want them consistent across both versions, add a statement at the
very top:

from __future__ import print_function