programming with Python 3000 in mind

[Simon Forman]

beliavsky at aol.com wrote:
> Some basic syntax such as
>
> print "hello world"
>
> is going away to make print look like a function. IMO, fixing what is
> not broken because of the aesthetic tastes of the BDFL is a bad idea.
> His reasoning is at
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056154.html
> .

When it comes to programming language design, I *trust* Guido.

I think he makes good non-aesthetic-taste-based points in that posting.
 Just the other day, someone was wanting to know how to capture the
output from ftplib printing to stdout.  IIRC, the least inconvenient
way (without replacing stdout) was rewriting it not to use print
statements...

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/70aca5068c18384f/d19e9119b7ca1af2

Peace,
~Simon